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Palingenesis

a biological law which states that the characteristics of the offspring are inherited from the parents, in contrast to the theory of cenoof cепоgenesis, which states that the characteristics are the result of environment. An illustration of the first case is the development of the frog, which undergoes a complete change, not only in outward appearance, but respiratory tem, in the change from the polliwog, with the long tail and respiratory gills, to the tailless frog with lungs for breathing.

Research has proved that this has always been the development of this type of animal. On the other hand, in the case of many insects, the offspring were born in the form of the parent, but have recently (biologically speaking) developed a laval stage of development-for example, the change of the caterpillar into the moth.

PALLEN party. The stakes are placed vertically at the foot of the slope of the counterscarp, or presented at an angle at the foot of a parapet, or on the banquette of the covered way.

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