plangent
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At first, he considered using de Vries’s word, pangene, with its homage to Darwin.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
But Darwin, in all truth, had misconceived the notion, and pangene would always carry the memory of that misconception.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Pangenetics seemed an obvious choice—extending de Vries’s use of the word pangene to denote the units of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Inquisitor's Tale
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