biography
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Weismann, August (Friedrich Leopold)
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pronunciation:
[viysman]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1834–1914)
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| biography:
| Biologist, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He studied at Göttingen, and became professor of zoology at Freiburg (1867). He is best known for his theory of germ plasm (1886), a hereditary substance of which only one half was passed on to the next generation cells. This is now recognized as a forerunner of the DNA theory. |
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