Note 82 — THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM WITH REGARD TO FORM AND METABOLISM (continued 3)
Reading edition
Arch. Entw. Mech. 21, 1906. By a very detailed comparative study Babák was able to prove that it is the plant proteids to which the effect of vegetable food is chiefly due; thus we have an adaptation to digestibility. Mechanical circumstances are only of secondary importance. (See also Yung.)