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Weissmannism

Weissmannism is the alternative form of Weismannism.

Meaning of Weismannism

Noun

Weismannism (uncountable)

  1. The principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never the other way round.

Origin of Weissmannism

From Weissmann + -ism.

Questions about Weissmannism

What is Weissmannism the alternative form of?
Weissmannism is the alternative form of Weismannism.

Words near Weissmannism in the dictionary

  1. weissite
  2. Weissman
  3. Weissmann
  4. Weissmannian
  5. Weissmannians
  6. Weissmannism
  7. Weissmannist
  8. Weissmannists
  9. Weissmanns
  10. Weissmans
  11. weisswurst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Weissmannism (page history and authors); Weismannism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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