Weis|mann|ism

Weis|mann|ism
Weis|mann|ism «VYS mahn ihz uhm», noun.
Biology. the theory of evolution and heredity propounded by August Weismann (1834-1914), a German biologist, especially his theory that germ plasm is the material basis of heredity and that acquired characters are not transmissible.

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