A pipette for use with a pipette tip or syringe having a piston and a cylinder, comprising: • a stem-shaped pipette housing, • a first holding apparatus at the lower end of the pipette housing for detachably holding the cylinder, • a lifting rod arranged in the pipette housing with a second holding apparatus at the lower end for detachably holding the upper end of a piston rod of the piston and displacing a sealing region of the piston in a piston running region above a tip opening at the lower end of the cylinder, • an arrangement made up of two parallel rods (72, 73) in the pipette housing which are coupled to one another via a deflection apparatus for simultaneous displacement in opposing directions, wherein one of the two rods (72, 73) is coupled to the lifting rod, • an operating element protruding outwardly from the pipette housing which can be displaced relative to the pipette housing in the axial direction of the lifting rod, and • a gear mechanism arranged in the pipette housing and comprising a drive driven by the operating element and an output driving the rods (72, 73), wherein the drive consists of a movable input member, the output comprises at least one movable output member and the gear mechanism is configured, during successive displacements of the input member from the same initial position by the operating element, to displace alternately the one rod (72, 73) and the other rod (72, 73) downwardly with the output member, and in which the output member of the gear mechanism is a driver element and the gear mechanism is configured to displace the driver element alternately into a position above the one rod (72, 73) and to displace said one rod by means of the driver element downwardly and subsequently into a position above the other rod (72, 73) and to displace said other rod by means of the driver element downwardly, characterized in that • the driver element is a wing disk rotatably mounted about an axis parallel to the rods (72, 73), which wing disk, during successive displacements of the input member from an initial position, can be positioned alternately with a wing above the one rod (72, 73) and at the same time with an undercut above the other rod (72, 73), and with an undercut above the one rod (72, 73) and at the same time with a wing above the other rod (72, 73). • a stem-shaped pipette housing, • a first holding apparatus at the lower end of the pipette housing for detachably holding the cylinder, • a lifting rod arranged in the pipette housing with a second holding apparatus at the lower end for detachably holding the upper end of a piston rod of the piston and displacing a sealing region of the piston in a piston running region above a tip opening at the lower end of the cylinder, • an arrangement made up of two parallel rods (72, 73) in the pipette housing which are coupled to one another via a deflection apparatus for simultaneous displacement in opposing directions, wherein one of the two rods (72, 73) is coupled to the lifting rod, • an operating element protruding outwardly from the pipette housing which can be displaced relative to the pipette housing in the axial direction of the lifting rod, and • a gear mechanism arranged in the pipette housing and comprising a drive driven by the operating element and an output driving the rods (72, 73), wherein the drive consists of a movable input member, the output comprises at least one movable output member and the gear mechanism is configured, during successive displacements of the input member from the same initial position by the operating element, to displace alternately the one rod (72, 73) and the other rod (72, 73) downwardly with the output member, and in which the output member of the gear mechanism is a driver element and the gear mechanism is configured to displace the driver element alternately into a position above the one rod (72, 73) and to displace said one rod by means of the driver element downwardly and subsequently into a position above the other rod (72, 73) and to displace said other rod by means of the driver element downwardly, characterized in that • the driver element is a wing disk rotatably mounted about an axis parallel to the rods (72, 73), which wing disk, during successive displacements of the input member from an initial position, can be positioned alternately with a wing above the one rod (72, 73) and at the same time with an undercut above the other rod (72, 73), and with an undercut above the one rod (72, 73) and at the same time with a wing above the other rod (72, 73).