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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › August-WeismannAugust Weismann | German Evolutionary Biologist & Geneticist

    Apr 15, 2024 · germ plasm. heredity. August Weismann (born January 17, 1834, Frankfurt am Main—died November 5, 1914, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) was a German biologist and one of the founders of the science of genetics. He is best known for his opposition to the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired traits and for his “germ plasm” theory, the ...

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    August Friedrich Leopold Weismann FRS (For), HonFRSE, LLD (17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of ...

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  4. embryo.asu.edu › pages › august-friedrich-leopoldAugust Friedrich Leopold Weismann (1834-1914) | Embryo ...

    May 23, 2014 · August Friedrich Leopold Weismann studied how the traits of organisms developed and evolved in a variety of organisms, mostly insects and aquatic animals, in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Weismann proposed the theory of the continuity of germ-plasm, a theory of heredity.

  5. www.britannica.com › science › germ-plasm-theoryGerm-plasm theory | Heredity, Genetics, Inheritance | Britannica

    germ plasm. germ-plasm theory, concept of the physical basis of heredity expressed by the 19th-century biologist August Weismann ( q.v. ). According to his theory, germ plasm, which is independent from all other cells of the body (somatoplasm), is the essential element of germ cells (eggs and sperm) and is the hereditary material that is passed ...

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    Jun 11, 2018 · Weismann, August (1834–1914) German biologist. His essay discussing the germ plasm theory, The Continuity of the Germ Plasm (1885), proposed the immortality of the germ line cells as opposed to body cells.

  8. www.encyclopedia.com › science › encyclopediasAugust Friedrich Leopold Weismann | Encyclopedia.com

    August Friedrich Leopold Weismann. 1834-1914. German Biologist. August Weismann, an early adherent to Darwin's theory of evolution, became famous for his studies on heredity.

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    August Weismann. 1834-1914. German biologist who was an early adherent of Darwin's theory of evolution and became famous for his studies on heredity.

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