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pangenetic
Variant of pangenesis
noun
a former hypothesis of heredity in which each unit or cell of the body throws off very minute particles () into the blood which circulate freely, undergo division, and are collected in the reproductive cells as the units of hereditary transmission
Related Forms:
- pangenetic adjective
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