thremmatologyn.
/θrɛməˈtɒlədʒi/ Biology.
That part of biology which treats of the propagation or breeding of domestic animals and plants.
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micrography1658
micrology1848
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electrobiology1849
biotechnics1852
human biology1860
phylogeny1872
developmental biology1877
psychobiology1879
microbiology1880
biokinetics1883
bacteriology1884
geratology1884
thremmatology1888
cell biology1889
biophysics1892
biomechanics1899
pathobiology1900
biometry1901
biometrics1902
metabiology1906
bioenergetics1907
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biomedicine1922
photobiology1923
virology1935
sociobiology1946
space biology1955
prebiology1963
chronobiology1969
glycobiology1988
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eugenics1883
thremmatology1888
negative eugenics1908
phenogenetics1928
cytogenetics1930
genetic engineering1934
radiogenetics1934
population biology1935
population genetics1938
immunogenetics1947
gengineering1985
archaeogenetics1999
1888 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 802/1 The area of biological knowledge..which relates to the breeding of animals and plants, their congenital variations, and the transmission and perpetuation of those variations..may be called thremmatology.
1888 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 802/1 Darwin's introduction of thremmatology into the domain of scientific biology.
1889 Athenæum 12 Jan. 47/2 The second subdivision, ‘Bionomics’, includes..thremmatology—a word coined for the subjects of variation, heredity, and the breeder's lore.
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