blastogenesis Biol.
(blæstəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs)
[f. blasto- + genesis.]
1. Reproduction by gemmation or budding.
| 1889 in Cent. Dict. 1966 Immunology X. 281 Chapman and Dutton..demonstrated a similar blastogenesis when cells from spleens or lymph nodes of two non-related rabbits were cultured together. |
2. The theory of the transmission of inherited characters by germ-plasm, as distinguished from ‘pangenesis’.
| 1893 in Funk's Stand. Dict. |