Definition of Heterogeny

1. n. Heterogenesis.

Definition of Heterogeny

1. Noun. (biology) heterogenesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heterogeny

1. [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Heterogeny

1. Heterogenesis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterogeny

heterogenetic antigen
heterogenetic parasite
heterogenic
heterogenic enterobacterial antigen
heterogenies
heterogenised
heterogenist
heterogenists
heterogenization
heterogenized
heterogenote
heterogenous
heterogenous keratoplasty
heterogenous nuclear RNA
heterogenous vaccine
heterogeny (current term)
heteroglossia
heteroglycan
heteroglycans
heterogonic
heterogonies
heterogonous
heterogony
heterograft
heterografted
heterografting
heterografts
heterogram
heterograms
heterographic

Literary usage of Heterogeny

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

1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"In certain Cynipidae there is a cyclic alternation of parthenogenetic females and male and female sexual forms of a different shape (true heterogeny). ..."

2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"It is important to emphasize this relation of the two principles, in order to understand the significance which Wundt attributes to the heterogeny of ends ..."

3. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1873)
"All reasoning by analogy is still in favour of reproduction from a parent ; but heterogeny has of late acquired partisans, especially in Germany, ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"The supporters of heterogeny rely on the impossibility of accounting for the appearance of the Vibrios and Bacterias in any other manner; for they say that ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1871)
"The supporters of heterogeny rely on-the impossibility of accounting for the appearance of the Vibrios and Bacterias in any other manner; for they say that ..."

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