Epigenics
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epigenics is a noun meaning The way in which something develops as a result of its environment.
Meaning
The way in which something develops as a result of its environment.
Example Sentences
Aristotle is saddled with responsibility for the most ancient verison of epigenics, namely that embryos arise de novo from totally unformed matter in each generation.
Epigenics at its most radical said that anything could become anything else: development was just a matter of physics, chemical fluxes, and environmental manipulation.
They too hoped to guide 20th century biology into the mainstream of hard-nosed science, but embryologists saw the gene as a disguised homunculus and rejected it. They returned to epigenics and promoted it as rival to the theory of the gene.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include epigenetics, epigenomics, epigenotyping, epigenotype, ecogenetics, ecophenotype.
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