 | 1892 - 1158 pages
...transformations that characterize other living substances. Herbert Spencer defines life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations..."simultaneous and successive" phases of anabolic and katabolie transformations of matter and energy, is admitted to be an essential condition of life in... | |
 | 1892 - 994 pages
...of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase, " living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent in fact... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science (U.S.) - 1890 - 698 pages
...operation of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase, "living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent, in... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1889 - 528 pages
...though for convenience sake we use the phrase ' living substance,' what is really meant by the words is not a thing or body of a particular chemical composition but matter undergoing a series of changes. § 542. Since the several tissues originate through a differentiation of the simpler, primordial protoplasm,... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1891 - 1132 pages
...though for convenience sake we use the phrase " living substance," what is really meant by the words is not a thing or body of a particular chemical composition but matter undergoing a series of changvs. § 543. 8ince the several tissues originate through a differentiation of the simpler, primordial... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 508 pages
...are not warranted in assuming that it is exempt from the metabolic transformations that character! ze other living substances. Herbert Spencer defines...condition of life in all tissues and elements of the body. A a living matter, the germ plasma must be continually undergoing metabolic changes in adjusting its... | |
 | 1892 - 930 pages
...operation of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase, "living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent in fact... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 604 pages
...operation of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase "living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent, In... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 606 pages
...operation of the system. Dr. Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase "living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition,...but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense of energy, and they represent, in... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1895 - 576 pages
...though for convenience sake we use the phrase ' living substance,' what is really meant by the words is not a thing or body of a particular chemical composition but matter undergoing a series of changes. § 542. Since the several tissues originate through a differentiation of the simpler, primordial protoplasm,... | |
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Foster tells us that what is really meant by the phrase, " living substance, is not a thing, or body, of a particular chemical composition, but matter undergoing a series of changes." These metabolic changes are brought about, in the main, at the expense... 
