Usually means: Theory of inheritance excluding acquired traits.
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  2. Weismannism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Weismannism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Weismannism)

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

Similar:
Hardy-Weinberg principle, mutationism, hereditism, biogenesis, central dogma, Mendelism, fixism, panspermy, Hardy-Weinberg model, heredity, more...

Opposite:
anti-weismannism, neo-Lamarckism

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Similar:
Hardy-Weinberg principle, mutationism, hereditism, biogenesis, central dogma, Mendelism, fixism, panspermy, Hardy-Weinberg model, heredity, more...

Opposite:
anti-weismannism, neo-Lamarckism



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