pangene Biol.
(pænˈdʒiːn)
Also pangen.
[f. Gr. παν- all + stem of γένος race, offspring, γεν- to beget: cf. next.]
De Vries's name for a (supposed) primary constituent unit of a germ-cell.
| 1899 J. A. Thomson Sci. Life xi. 146 The theory of ‘Pangenes’ advocated by De Vries in 1889..incorporates the distinctively modern conception of germinal continuity. Ibid. 153 To these hypothetical units numerous names have been given—biophors, pangenes, idiosomes [etc.]. |