Look up: Epigenesis

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   epigenesis
   [n] - a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
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   epigenesis
   The theory that development is a process of gradual increase in complexity as opposed to the preformationist view that supposed that mere increase in size was sufficient to produce adult from embryo.
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   Epigenesis
   Ep`i·gen'e·sis noun [ Prefix epi- + genesis .] (Biol.) The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution , also to syngenesis .
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   epigenesis
   <biology> The theory that development is a process of gradual increase in complexity as opposed to the preformationist view that supposed that mere increase in size was sufficient to produce adult from embryo. ... (07 May 1998) ...
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   epigenesis
   noun a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
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   Epigenesis
   `Epigenesis` can refer to one of the following: * In geology, changes in the mineral composition of a rock because of outside influences, e.g. the injection of a vein of ore into existing rock. * Epigenesis (biology) describes morphogenesis and development of an organism * Epigenesis (creative intelligences) is the philosophical/theological/esoteric idea that since the mind was given to the human being, it is this original creative impulse, epige...
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   epigenesis
   (ep″ĭ-jen´ә-sis) the development of an organism from an undifferentiated cell, consisting in the successive formation and development of organs and parts that do not preexist in the zygote.
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   Epigenesis
   • (n.) The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.
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   epigenesis
   (from the article `biology`) ...schools of thought had been based on this question: the preformation school maintained that the egg contains a miniature individual that develops ... [5 related articles]
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    epigenesis
    (from the article `loess`) These pedogenetic processes may take place in three different ways. Epigenesis is an accumulation of a mineral mass without loess properties, perhaps ...
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    epigenesis
    The succession of changes by which an embryonic organism passes through stages, more or less distinct from each other, in which new parts and organs appear that were not preformed. The slow acquisition of the characteristic form and function of the individual is called morphogenesis.
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