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Gemmules
In the late 1800s Charles Darwin and others proposed a mechanism of inheritance of acquired characters by means of gemmules (also called plastitudes or pangenes), which were thought to perhaps reside in the blood. This was prior to Gregor Mendel's discovery of the particulate nature of inheritance becoming common knowledge among biologists after their rediscovery in 1900.
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