filial generation

any of the successive generations of descent from an original parental generation. The immediate descendants of the initial parents are the first filial generation (denoted F₁), their descendants are the second filial generation (denoted F₂), and so on.

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panacea

n. a solution or remedy for everything that is wrong with a given problem or that universally applies to a set of related problems.