Surgically transplanted

Usage examples of grafted.

There is no more reason to think that species have been specially endowed with various degrees of sterility to prevent them crossing and blending in nature, than to think that trees have been specially endowed with various and somewhat analogous degrees of difficulty in being grafted together in order to prevent them becoming inarched in our forests.

On the other hand, certain species of Sorbus, when grafted on other species, yielded twice as much fruit as when on their own roots.

And as we must look at the curious and complex laws governing the facility with which trees can be grafted on each other as incidental on unknown differences in their vegetative systems, so I believe that the still more complex laws governing the facility of first crosses, are incidental on unknown differences, chiefly in their reproductive systems.

With respect to the almost universal sterility of species when first crossed, which forms so remarkable a contrast with the almost universal fertility of varieties when crossed, I must refer the reader to the recapitulation of the facts given at the end of the eighth chapter, which seem to me conclusively to show that this sterility is no more a special endowment than is the incapacity of two trees to be grafted together, but that it is incidental on constitutional differences in the reproductive systems of the intercrossed species.

Hence I am inclined to look at adaptation to any special climate as a quality readily grafted on an innate wide flexibility of constitution, which is common to most animals.

Although many distinct genera within the same family have been grafted together, in other cases species of the same genus will not take on each other.

The pear can be grafted far more readily on the quince, which is ranked as a distinct genus, than on the apple, which is a member of the same genus.

No explanation can be given of these facts, any more than why certain trees cannot be grafted on others.

Nor is it surprising that the facility of effecting a first cross, the fertility of the hybrids produced, and the capacity of being grafted together -- though this latter capacity evidently depends on widely different circumstances -- should all run, to a certain extent, parallel with the systematic affinity of the forms which are subjected to experiment.

The head—like a terrestrial shark—had been grafted on, all teeth and tiny killer-bright eyes.

Thick cables had been grafted on to the interface panels, wiring them into clumps of spherical high-density power cells.

Biochemical devices were grafted on to glands and circulatory networks, supplementing organ functions.

They’d replaced her blood and grafted on skin and tissue where Kiera had burned down to the bone, implanted the new eyes.

Zag had gone the obvious route of adding chrome in the form of razor claws grafted to his hands and some retractable spurs that popped up from the top of his feet.

Travel through nonmatter had been greatly facilitated by the discovery that cognizance could be achieved by any vessel's basic biode if a few cells of one of the lizards' brains were grafted into its code.