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Weismannist /ˈvʌɪsmənɪst /adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the German biologist August Weismann or his theory of evolution and heredity: this theory of heredity was Weismannist to its core...- He promised to repudiate henceforth Weismannist formal genetics and blamed his teachers for his past errors.
- Mendelian inheritance is in fact an instance of a more general mechanism called Weismannist inheritance.
- This is the Weismannist assumption, expressed colloquially by saying that acquired characters are not inherited.
nounAn adherent of the German biologist August Weismann’s theory of evolution and heredity: Weismannists uphold the so-called chromosome theory of heredity...- The representatives of reactionary biological science - Neo-Darwinians, Weismannists, or Mendelist-Morganists - uphold the so-called chromosome theory of heredity.
- The directors of the biological section installed cadres of Weismannists in the institutes under their direction.
- Both Lamarckians and Weismannists admit that the better adapted to its surroundings a living form may be, the more likely it is to outbreed its compeers.
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