Definition of Pangen

1. a hypothetical heredity-controlling particle of protoplasm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pangen

panfries
panfry
panfrying
panful
panfuls
pang
pang of conscience
panga
pangamic
pangamic acid
pangamies
pangamy
pangas
pangasius
panged
pangen (current term)
pangene
pangenes
pangeneses
pangenesis
pangenetic
pangens
pangful
panging
pangless
panglossia
pangolin
pangolins
pangram
pangrammatic

Literary usage of Pangen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"A pangen would, in general, only be able to nourish itself, grow, and divide, ... A pangen can hardly be a micella, but must be built up of a number of ..."

2. Intracellular Pangenesis: Including a Paper on Fertilization and Hybridization by Hugo de Vries (1910)
"The term pangen is employed in its original sense by Strasburger in his paper ... conceiving of them as invisible, and accepting for them the name pangen, ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... property will call forth the phenomenon which we have named fluctuating variations; while a modification in the composition of the pangen, for example, ..."

4. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"The pangen-hypothesis of De Vries and Weismann recognizes the fact that development is ... 2 Hert- wig ('92, 2), while accepting the pangen-hypothesis, ..."

5. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"The pangen hypothesis of De Vries and Weismann recognizes the fact that development is ... 2 Hert- wig ('92, 2), while accepting the pangen hypothesis, ..."

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