plasmata

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of plasma

   “The influence of genetic and physiologic factors on plasma protein composition are obvious for amphibian and reptilian plasmata, and is particularly striking for teleostian plasmata.”

   “At the first ontogenesis the germ-plasma of the offspring would consist of two plasmata, those namely of the father and mother, the second obviously will have four, and so on in ever increasing complexity. These derived plasmata he calls ancestral plasmata, and, as he points out, by the time the tenth generation has been reached there will be 1,024 different ancestral plasmata in each germ-cell.”