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Morganism Biol.|ˈmɔːgənɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name Morgan + -ism.]
Mendelian genetics, incorporating a theory of the gene that came to be generally accepted, as propounded by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945), U.S. geneticist and zoologist. Hence ˈMorganist a.
1934H. J. Muller in Pamyati V.I. Lenina (Akad. Nauk SSSR) 572 The great bulk of the facts of real significance, subsequent to 1911, and practically all after 1913, were found by the younger workers quite independently of any guidance from him, in experiments which they had planned... Their results and interpretations were, however, later accepted by Morgan and presented chiefly by him to the scientific and lay public, so that these developments have sometimes been referred to, especially in circles farthest removed from contact with the original work, as ‘Morganism’. 1950A. Huxley Themes & Variations 167 The canonization of Lysenko and the anathema pronounced on ‘reactionary Morganism’. 1966E. A. Carlson Gene xi. 95 The article [published by H. J. Muller in 1934]..dissociates ‘Morganism’ from the gene concept developed at the Columbia laboratory. Ibid., The controversy..eventually erupted into a clear cut ‘Lysenkoist’ camp and a formal genetics camp, disparagingly referred to as ‘Morganist’. |