heterogenetic

[ het-uh-roh-juh-net-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.

Other Words From

• heter·o·ge·neti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of heterogenetic¹

First recorded in 1870–75; hetero- + -genetic

Example Sentences

If the species originated by descent from the most closely related lower species, and under certain circumstances also from species of the same rank, and even by degeneration from the next higher, it must have occurred in one of two ways: either by leaps—called by naturalists "metamorphosis of germs" or "heterogenetic conception"—or by a succession of imperceptibly small alterations of the individuals from generation to generation.

From Project Gutenberg

Heer has introduced into scientific language the term "new-modeling of the species," K�lliker that of a "heterogenetic generation," and Baumg�rtner that of a "transmutation of the types through a metamorphosis of germs."

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Among them we find also scientists who answer the question in the sense of a new-modeling of the species, of a heterogenetic generation, and of a metamorphosis of germs.

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Another is the possibility of a descent by leaps, through a metamorphosis of germs or a heterogenetic generation.

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The real causes of such a heterogenetic generation, if it took place at all, have not yet been found; therefore we have to treat only of the abstract possibilities of its conceivableness.

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