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pangenePangen (ger.)

  • Hugo de Vries' term for: a supposed particle embodying a heritable character which is present in a cell nucleus and is transmitted to each daughter nucleus during cell division. (OED 2011)
    gene pangenesis
    1889

    The particles, to which the development of hereditary characters is due and which, according to his [scil. de Vries’] view, do not migrate through the whole organism, are called by him ‘pangens’ (Pangene).

    Moll, J.W. (1889). Inracellular Pangenesis. Bot. Gaz. 14, 54-66: 56.

    1889

    die kleinsten Theilchen, welche je Eine erbliche Eigenschaft vertreten, werde ich, weil mit der Bezeichnung „Keimchen” die Vorstellung eines Transportes durch den ganzen Organismus verbunden ist, mit einem neuen Namen belegen und Pangene nennen.

    de Vries, H. (1889). Intracellulare Pangenesis: 6.

Lenay, C. (1995). Hugo de Vries et l’idée d’indépendence des caractères. In: Blanckaert, C., Fischer, J. & Rey, R. (eds.). Nature, histoire, société.