Definitions for epigenesis

epigenesis ep·i·gen·e·sis

Spelling: [ep-i-jen-uh-sis]
IPA: /ˌɛp ɪˈdʒɛn ə sɪs/

Epigenesis is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in epigenesis (eeegiinpss).

Definitions for epigenesis

noun

  1. Biology. the theory that an embryo develops from the successive differentiation of an originally undifferentiated structure (opposed to preformation).
  2. Genetics. the approximately stepwise process by which genetic information is modified and translated into the substance and behavior of an organism. See also epigenetics.
  3. Geology. ore deposition subsequent to the original formation of the enclosing country rock.

Origin of epigenesis

First recorded in 1800-10; epi- + -genesis

Examples for epigenesis

That then is our result: not evolutio, but epigenesis—epigenesis vitalistica.

Here we have epigenesis—the appearance of a new formation, not the becoming visible of pre-existing complexity.

This point established, two hypotheses remain: that of 'pre-existence' and that of 'epigenesis'.

Wolff's epigenesis was not a complete explanation—indeed, from its fundamental conception it could not possibly be such.

The development is an epigenesis, or impressing on identical material of different characters by different surrounding forces.

Elsewhere he writes: 'I believe that I have established that ontogeny can be explained only by evolution, and not by epigenesis.'

Digby's general theory thus represents a strange mixture of epigenesis and pangenesis, and is not entirely devoid of "virtues."

The differences between the exponents of evolution and epigenesis offer practical problems to be decided by experiment.

Preformation: the doctrine of growth or development from already existing rudiments; opposed to epigenesis: q.v.

It is interesting to display the essential contrast between preformation and epigenesis in the poetical words of Wolff himself.

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