- cell lineage
- cell-division
- central dogma
- central form
- central organ
- central type
- centriole
- centromere
- centrosome
- chain of forms
- chain reflex
- chamaephyte
- chance selection
- change in form
- change of function
- character
- character displacement
- character diversity
- character state
- characteristic plants
- characteristic species
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chain reflexKettenreflex (ger.)
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A series of reflexes in which each sets off the next. (OED 2012)
- 1899
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Kettenreflex[:] Die complicirteren Instincte sind meistens nur Reihen von segmentalen Reflexen […], wobei die Einwirkung des einen Reflexes zugleich die Reizursache für die Entfesselung eines zweiten Reflexes wirdLoeb, J. (1899). Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie: 96.
- 1900
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I am inclined to recommend using the word chain-reflexes, whereby the performance of one reflex acts at the same time as the stimulus for setting free a second reflex.Loeb, J. (1900). Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology: 144.