English Explanatory Dictionary

Weismannism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never the other way round.

Word forms

Weismannism Weissmannism

Etymology

From Weismann + -ism, after August Weismann, who proposed the theory.

Derived words

neo-Weismannism
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