Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theoretical principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel; Mendel's laws.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The theory of hybridity and heredity proposed by Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–84) and revived in later years by De Vries, Bateson, and others. See
ancestral inheritance .
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- noun The whole body of principles of
heredity formulated by G. Mendel, that represent the basis ofgenetics . - noun The study of heredity of
character .
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- noun the theory of inheritance based on Mendel's laws
Etymologies
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Examples
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The essential point in this doctrine of heredity is known as Mendelism; it is the principle of inheritance through the pure transmission of unit characters.
The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle
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We must shortly proceed to study the origin and determination of sex, and more especially of femaleness, in the individual, and here we shall be entirely concerned with the new knowledge commonly called Mendelism, to which there is no allusion in our authors 'pages.
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But to-day a number of maturer-looking volumes were adroitly mingled with the primeurs of the press -- Karl Marx jostled Professor Bergson, and the "Confessions of St. Augustine" lay beside the last work on "Mendelism"; so that even to Mrs. Leveret's fluttered perceptions it was clear that Mrs. Ballinger didn't in the least know what Osric Dane was likely to talk about, and had taken measures to be prepared for anything.
Xingu 1911
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Professor Bergson, and the "Confessions of St. Augustine" lay beside the last work on "Mendelism"; so that even to Mrs. Leveret's fluttered perceptions it was clear that Mrs. Ballinger didn't in the least know what Osric Dane was likely to talk about, and had taken measures to be prepared for anything.
Xingu 1916 Edith Wharton 1899
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But to-day a number of maturer-looking volumes were adroitly mingled with the primeurs of the press -- Karl Marx jostled Professor Bergson, and the "Confessions of St. Augustine" lay beside the last work on "Mendelism"; so that even to Mrs. Leveret's fluttered perceptions it was clear that Mrs. Ballinger didn't in the least know what Osric Dane was likely to talk about, and had taken measures to be prepared for anything.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2 Edith Wharton 1899
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I hear that it’s merged with other isms, such as Mendelism and Crick-and-Watsonism.
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The point is that eugenics DID enjoy scientific support, that science was Darwinism (plus Mendelism and agricultural stock breeding).
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The point is that eugenics DID enjoy scientific support, that science was Darwinism (plus Mendelism and agricultural stock breeding).
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The point is that eugenics DID enjoy scientific support, that science was Darwinism (plus Mendelism and agricultural stock breeding).
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William Bateson, the father of modern genetics, who concluded that Mendelism had nothing to do with speciation or evolution in general, that evolution was the expression of an enormous potential of pre-existing information.
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