Look up: Epigenesis


  1. epigenesis
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ep′i-jen′ĕ-sis Definitions: 1. Development of offspring from a zygote. 2. Regulation of the expression of gene activity without alteration of genetic structure.
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=29745

  2. Epigenesis
    [biology] In biology, epigenesis has at least two distinct meanings: The originator of this theory of epigenesis was Aristotle in his book On the Generation of Animals. Though the theory seems an obvious fact to us in today`s genetic age, however, the theory was not given much credence in fo...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenesis_(biology)

  3. epigenesis
    [n] - a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=epigenesis

  4. 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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  5. 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 evo...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/55

  6. 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) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?epigenesis

  7. epigenesis
    noun a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=epigenesis



  1. 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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  2. 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.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/epigenesis/

  3. 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]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/36

  4. 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 ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/36

  5. 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.
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/E/epigenesis.html

  6. Epigenesis
    The philosophical/theological/esoteric idea that since the mind was given to the human being, it is this original creative impulse, epigenesis, which has been the cause of all of mankind's development.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_spirituality_terms

  7. epigenesis
    1) Metamorphism
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/epigenesis/1

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