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heterodynamous determinant
ˌheteroˈdynamous adj. 
/ˌhɛdərəˈdaɪnəməs/ [in sense (b) < French hétérodyname (E. Roubaud 1922, in Bull. Biol. de la France et de la Belg. LVI. 471)] (a) Biology pertaining or relating to the dominance of certain ancestral characteristics in inheritance; heterodynamous determinant, ‘in Weismann's doctrine of germ-plasm, one of the determinants which are the bearers of the hereditary qualities of cells that are different in the two parents’ ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.); (b) Entomology (of an insect, its life cycle, etc.) characterized by having a continuous succession of generations only during the favourable part of the year.
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1893 tr. A. Weismann Germ-plasm ix. 265 They..are heterodynamous, or, in other words, they tend to impress a somewhat different character on the same part of the body.
1902 W. Bateson & E. R. Saunders Rep. to Evol. Comm. Royal Soc. No. 1. 126 Correns proposes the terms ‘heterodynamous’ and ‘homodynamous’ to express that an organism is dominant or not dominant in respect of a given character.
1929 V. E. Shelford Lab. & Field Ecol. vi. 160 Roubaud separates the higher Diptera into two categories, homodynamous and heterodynamous.
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