pangenesis

Noun

Meaning

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

genesis development birth generation procreation parthenogenesis abiogenesis epigenesis heterogenesis blastogenesis metagenesis homogenesis xenogenesis orthogenesis

Antonyms

conclusion

Examples

Darwin wrote that Hippocrates' pangenesis was "almost identical with mine—merely a change of terms—and an application of them to classes of facts necessarily unknown to the old philosopher." Source: Internet

Hugo de Vries connected Darwin's pangenesis theory to Weismann's germ/soma cell distinction and proposed that Darwin's pangenes were concentrated in the cell nucleus and when expressed they could move into the cytoplasm to change the cells structure. Source: Internet

University of Chicago Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-226-36051-2 "As Darwin was to discover many years later, Buffon had devised a system of heredity not all that different from his own theory of pangenesis." Source: Internet

The Irish physician Henry Freke in his book Origin of Species by Means of Organic Affinity (1861) developed a variant of pangenesis. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pangender pangendered pangene pangenetic pangenome pangenomic