CONTRARIAN VIEW. “Thus, August Weismann may have been wrong not only because molecular turnover is inevitable in all cell lineages but because the alleged immortality of the germ plasm takes place only under conditions of periodic genetic recombination. By themselves gametes and the germ plasm are not an immortal lineage.” (L. Haflick, contrarian).
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