August Friedrich Leopold Weismann

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
noun
German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)
Syn: ↑Weismann
Instance Hypernyms: ↑geneticist

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