单词 | kenogenesis |
释义 | kenogenesisn. Biology. Haeckel's term for the form of ontogenesis in which the true hereditary development of a germ is modified by features derived from its environment (opposed to palingenesis). ΚΠ 1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. i. 11 This distinction between Palingenesis or inherited evolution, and Kenogenesis or vitiated evolution, has not..yet been sufficiently appreciated by naturalists. Derivatives kenogeˈnetic adj. ΚΠ 1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. i. 10 The term Kenogenetic process (or vitiation of the history of the germ) is applied to all such processes of the germ-history as are not to be explained by heredity from primaeval parent-forms. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1879 |
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