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n. - The alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal.

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  • Stagnant pools were found full of them, and the obvious difficulty of assigning a germinal origin to existences so minute furnished the precise condition necessary to give new...
  • Nor can either abiogenesis or heterogenesis be excluded
  • Instead, he con - tinued to accept a limited type of heterogenesis pertaining to the presumed production of gall-insects from living plant tissues and of parasitic worms...
  • On this aspect of the question, Pasteur's disproof of heterogenesis was not altogether decisive and was, in part, to be counterbalanced on a more theoretical plane by...
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