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Definition of Epigenesis

1. Noun. A geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed.

Definition of Epigenesis

1. 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.

Definition of Epigenesis

1. Noun. (biology) The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed. ¹

2. Noun. (geology) changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation ¹

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Definition of Epigenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Epigenesis

1. 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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