Determinants [noun]

These determinants control the parts of the developing embryo,—in what manner need not here concern us.

But since all living entities vary, the determinants must also vary, now in a favourable, now in an unfavourable direction.

He believes also that there are many more such "determinants" than are necessary for the reproduction of the cell.

Several factors act as soil determinants: Fertility; physical characters; soil heat.

They are much more important determinants of future sensations than is anything which can now be calculated.

We may indeed safely start from the assumption that impulse and habit, not thought, are the primary determinants of conduct.

This microcosm, again, consists of a number of minor vital units called determinants, which cohere according to an orderly plan.

Ultimately, when the whole body is formed, the cells contain only their own kind of determinants.

One set of these double determinants remains latent, the other becomes active.

The histological character of every cell in a multicellular organism is determined by a single determinant (cell-determinants).