Pangenesis

{pan-jen’ -es-is) [~ac, all; yewav, to produce]. Darwin s theory of heredity, which supposes the existence of gemmui es minute particles separated from the body-cells and segregated from the circulation by the reproductive glands. These preformed constituents of all parts of the fully-formed animal or plant become aggregated in the germ, and give rise by a proce of evolution to the new organism. 475