Epigenesis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epigenesis is a noun meaning (geology) Changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation.
Meaning
(geology) Changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation.
More Meanings
- (biology) The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed.
Example Sentences
Ignored for two millennia, Aristotle, in his book On the Generation of Animals, first proposed the theory of epigenesis in biology, suggesting that development of a plant or animal from an egg or spore follows a sequence of steps in which the organism changes and the various organs form.
Word Forms
- epigeneses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preformation, epigenesist, palingenesis, epigenist, perigenesis, embryogeny.
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