weismannian

Example Sentences

• "It appears to the writer that [Oscar] Riddle attacks very successfully the de Vriesian interpretation of these phenomena. Unfortunately, however, he utterly confuses Mendelian facts with de Vriesian and Weismannian theories—hypotheses, rather, and attempts to throw both facts and hypotheses out of court."
• "However, while the particle hypothesis is not disproved, I have no doubt that the Weismannian, and perhaps also the De Vriesian conception of the genes will seem less and less plausible as new facts accumulate."
• "Lamarckian, Darwinian, Weismannian, and Mendelian concepts and their transferability onto the “biology of the Jews” were hotly debated."
• "Secondly, it must be frankly admitted that in many instances in which acquired characters have been said to be inherited or might be expected to be inherited, the Weismannians have shown that nevertheless there is no such inheritance."
• "The Embryologists protest that the Weismannians and the Cytologists have gone too far. You claim too much. You are perilously near the old pre-formationists who thought they could detect the whole future organism in miniature within the egg."
• "Even if we assume that the various substances with which we have been dealing are each produced by a single pair of chromosomes rather than by all the organs of the cell we can not look upon the chromosomes as the hereditary units spoken of by the de Vriesians and Weismannians, for we here look upon each chromosome as playing possibly an important part in the development of every feature of the organism."