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Перевод: germ

[существительное]
микроб ; микроорганизм ; зародыш ; эмбрион ; зачаток ; завязь [бот.] ; происхождение;
[глагол]
давать ростки; развиваться

Тезаурус:

1. Maybe a germ slipped out of his prick and landed on me.
2. I still didn't realise what the trouble might be, although I dare say the germ of cancer may have nestled for the first time in my mind.
3. The germ of this idea can be traced back to the sophist Antiphon (c.480-;411 BC), one of whose fragments contains the earliest Greek definition of time.
4. A grain of wheat, for example, consists essentially of three parts: the bran, made up of several outer coverings, the germ (the embryo of the new plant) and the endosperm, the starchy centre which is made into flour.
5. The enamel comes from the cell sheet and is induced by the cells of the underlying tooth germ.
6. The soma is mortal, but the germ line potentially immortal.
7. More fundamental, all the energy and material needed for the growth of the germ cells is supplied by the rest of the body, so there are plenty of opportunities for the body to influence the germ cells.
8. A second cause of differentiation is illustrated by the way in which "primordial germ cells" are formed in the fruitfly Drosophila .
9. A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted.
10. There have been four main stages in the growth of our knowledge of genetics: Weismann's concept of the independence of germ line and soma; the establishment of an atomic theory of heredity following the rediscovery of Mendel's laws in 1900: the chromosome theory of heredity, based in particular on the work of T. H. Morgan and his colleagues on the fruitfly Drosophila ; and the growth of molecular genetics, initiated by the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Watson and Crick.
11. He dismissed the small 1724 work as "merely a germ of those which succeeded in folio" and quotes Pulteney's assessment of the 1731 edition as "the most complete body of gardening extant".
12. One leads to the adult body, or "soma", and the other, constituting the "germ line", leads to the germ cells - egg and sperm - which are the starting-point of the next generation.
13. Dutch customs officials have agreed a temporary compromise in the row over imports of maize gluten containing high proportions of maize germ, which should restore trade to Rotterdam.