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De Vries   /di vriz/   Listen
De Vries

noun
1.
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935).  Synonyms: deVries, Hugo De Vries, Hugo deVries.



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... this question has been furnished by biologists, at which we cannot be surprised. The phenomena of osmosis are naturally of the first importance in the action of organisms, and for a long time have attracted the attention of naturalists. De Vries imagined that the contractions noticed in the protoplasm of cells placed in saline solutions were due to a phenomenon of osmosis, and, upon examining more closely certain peculiarities of cell life, various scholars ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
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