perigenesis

构词拆解

前缀

词干

peri-: surrounding · near

词源说明

From peri- +‎ genesis. Named by Ernst Haeckel's 1876 text Die Perigenesis der Plastidule, translated into English as "The Generation of Waves in the Small Vital Particles")

释义

名词noun

1(biology, historical) A theory put forward by Ernst Haeckel which explains inheritance (of characteristics) by the transmission of the type of so-called "growth force", possessed by one generation to another.

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perigenetic