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August Friedrich Leopold Weismann

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1. august friedrich leopold weismann, weismann

German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann

see synonyms of august friedrich leopold weismann
German biologist who asserted that hereditary traits are transmitted by a material substance, the germplasm, and that acquired characters cannot be inherited.

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