Plastids

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.)
     A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of
     form, in distinction from {bion}, a physiological individual.
     See {Tectology}. --Haeckel.
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     Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1.
           {Plastids} or elementary organisms. 2. {Organs},
           homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. {Antimeres} (opposite
           or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. {Metameres}
           (successive or homodynamous parts). 5. {Personae}
           (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest
           sense among the higher animals). 6. {Corms} (stocks or
           colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has
           been recently substituted. See {Idorgan}.
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