1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Monogenicus, applied to a rock of which all the parts are of the same nature; thus the monogenic gompholite is a calcareous rock in a calcareous cement, more or less pure: monogenic.

1984 Geology 12 352/1 The textural evidence..and the areal extent of the breccia indicate that it must be attributed to a large monogenic avalanche.

1989 Chem. Geol. 77 306/2 The picrites give rise to either monogenic breccias, or occur within polygenic breccias associated with picritic basalt, basalt and rarely with gabbro.

1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 240 There are a few other monogenic elements.

1892 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 14 291 It will be convenient to begin by determining the conditions for a monogenic function of the variable x + kw.

1896 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 3 The first of Dr. Blake's papers gives a classification of the methods which have been used for defining monogenic functions, such as algebraic, transcendental and functional equations, assigned singularities, representability upon a given Riemann's surface, etc.

1946 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 337 Therefore u(x, y) and v(x, y) are conjugate harmonic in D and f(z) is monogenic in the classical sense.

1994 Jrnl. Math. Anal. & Applic. 185 192 Another class of monogenic functions which can be obtained from f(Z) are the plane wave monogenics.

1894 G. M. Gould Illustr. Dict. Med. Monogenic, in biology, producing but one sort of embryo, as distinguished from diphygenic.

1931 C. W. Metz & M. L. Schmuck in Genetics 16 229 The usual type of reproduction in Sciara, in which ‘unisexual’ progenies are produced, is replaced in certain species and races by a type characterized by bisexual progenies... These types of reproduction are designated monogenic and digenic, respectively.

1938 Bull. Biologique 72 189 The monogenic females are divided into 6 categories.

1986 Biochemistry 25 693 Females of the monogenic blowfly Chrysomya rufifacies produce either female or male progeny depending on their genetic constitution.

1953 Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 49 579 The techniques developed in (9) are used here to study the properties of multiplicative systems generated by one element (monogenic systems).

1962 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 84 65 H(x⁽ⁿ⁺¹⁾) is the free monogenic Hopf algebra generated by x⁽ⁿ⁺¹⁾).

1989 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 106 618 Every monogenic semigroup is Abelian.

1921 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 7 51 The former of these contrasts [sc. flower colour] proved to be a simple monogenic one, but the latter [sc. petiole length] necessitated a complex Mendelian formulation.

1939 Jrnl. Genetics 38 420 These results indicate that the asynaptic condition in N. sylvestris is determined by a difference which behaves as a monogenic recessive.

1960 Phytopathology 50 766 (heading) Dominance of avirulence and monogenic control of virulence in race hybrids of Ustilago avenae.

1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 40/2 Conventional measurements of blood pressure are too variable to distinguish between monogenic and polygenic models of heredity.

1995 Nature 9 Nov. 141/1 Duchenne muscular dystrophy is in many ways the perfect model of human monogenic disease.