Heritable vs Pangene - What's the difference?
heritable | pangene |
able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
* 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
* 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
As an adjective heritable
is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children.As a noun pangene is
(obsolete|genetics) a supposed particle with which heritable character was transmitted during cell division.heritable
English
Adjective
(-)- All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable' crown, or an '''heritable''' throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are ' heritable property.
- But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...