Definition of "somatogenic" []

• Of somatic origin; developing from the somatic cells. (adjective)

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• "Weismann (1892, p. 401) said, 'A somatogenic character is not inherited in this case, but the modifying influence – temperature – affects the primary constituents of the wings in each individual, i.e. a part of the soma – as well as germplasm contained in the germ of animals. '"
• "Adami remarks that Weismann would make the somewhat subtle distinction that the toxins produce these results not by acting on the body-cells but by direct action on the germ-cells, that the inheritance is blastogenic not somatogenic, and calls this 'a sorry and almost Jesuitic play upon words. '"
• "The theory of the heredity of somatogenic modifications is not in opposition to the mutation theory."