Weissmannism

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A form of Weismannism — The principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never the other way round.

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Meanings

nounWeissmannism (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Weismannism.

    Publications: "Some Observations Upon a Series of Kalmuck Skulls"; "Outlines of Vertebrate Evolution"; and numerous papers, including "The underlying fallacy of Weissmannism," which caused heated discussion at the Zoological Congress of Vienna.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Origin

From Weissmann + -ism.

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