Epigenesis

[,epi'dʒenisis]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed.

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解釋/意思:

(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.

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解釋/意思:

n. the development of the organism by the growth and differentiation of a single germ—i.e. by the division or segmentation of a fertilised egg-cell.—n. Epigen′esist.—adj. Epigenet′ic.

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