monogeneticadj.

1857 A. Smee Monogenesis of Physical Forces 24 Attraction acting on attracted matter is the source of all force, and..every physical force has a monogenetic origin.

1936 Antiquity 10 345 Modern European vessels are not monogenetic. At least two independent origins must be postulated.

1863 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 443 Whether we accept the monogenetic doctrine of Müller, or the polygenetic doctrine of Renan, we must admit that the difference between the higher and the lower forms of speech is the difference between their comparative degrees of integration.

1975 Language 51 692 This result certainly does not support a monogenetic theory of the origin of Atlantic PC's and those of the Philippines and New Guinea.

1993 Hist. European Ideas Jan. 183 In the mid-eighteenth century the notion of ‘origin’, considered essential to the theory of language..included speculation on..the history of language formation (monogenetic and/or polygenetic).

1873 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 105 429 A composite or polygenetic range or chain, made up of two or more monogenetic ranges combined.

1880 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 3) iv. vi. 796 The Appalachians..constitute one individual among mountains, because a result of one genetic process, or in a word, monogenetic.

1943 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 241 472 If a soil is matured in a single period having a relatively uniform climate, there results the normal soil familiar from textbook description. It is a monogenetic soil.

1963 Nature 5 Jan. 68/1 Fig. 1 shows how monogenetic folds may have peculiarities hitherto often taken to suspect the presence of superimposed folding.

1996 N.Z. Jrnl. Geol. & Geophysics 39 283/1 Karioi is surrounded by small monogenetic volcanoes of the Okete Formation.

1873 F. M. Müller in Fraser's Mag. July 2 There are, indeed, two schools of physiologists, the polygenetic and monogenetic, the former admitting from the beginning a variety of primitive cells, the latter postulating but one cell, as the source of all being.

1886 Science 7 169/1 The monogenetic theory which believes in the original common origin of all mankind from one pair.

1896 F. B. Jevons Introd. Hist. Relig. i. 7 Man's origin was monogenetic.

1991 K. A. Stølen in K. A. Stølen & M. Vaa Gender & Change in Developing Countries 18 Monogenetic theories create a symbolic alliance between men and God.

1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates 189 These are the monogenetic trematodes, comprising the Tristomidæ and all the worms of that group.

1903 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. I. 166 In Monocystis the whole life-history is a single cycle,..it is, in fact, monogenetic... But in many other Sporozoa..the life-cycle becomes digenetic, that is to say, it is differentiated into two distinct generations.

1938 Illinois Biol. Monogr. 17 i. 60 An intermediate host is not utilized by monogenetic flukes.

1995 Acta Parasitologica 40 165 Two species of monogenetic worms of the genus Pseudodactylogyrus..were recorded on the gills of eel from Strazyn Lake.

1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Monogenetic Reproduction, asexual reproduction.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 24 154 A monogenetic factor determining basic pigmentation in Biomphalaria straminea follows simple Mendelian inheritance and has at least three alleles.

1989 Jrnl. Zool. 219 122 The mode of inheritance of this aberration is thought to be under recessive monogenetic control.

1999 European Jrnl. Gastroenterol. & Hepatol. 11 1 Genetically, human diseases can be classified as monogenetic, complex genetic and acquired genetic diseases.