epigenesis
noun
the theory that an embryo develops from the successive differentiation of an originally undifferentiated structure (opposed to preformation).
epigenetically
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a word derived from
epigenesis.
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a word derived from
epigenetic.
epigeneticadjectiveof or relating to epigenesis, or the successive differentiation of undifferentiated cells in an embryo.
Example Sentences
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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer's patients is epigenetically altered.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
The company’s first epigenetically grown product, a tomato dubbed Summer Swell, is due to hit shelves this spring.
From Scientific American ● May 10, 2023
“Why would a woman look epigenetically younger during a pregnancy and epigenetically older after multiple pregnancies?”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019
We don’t have to micromanage the repair, the Harvard molecular biologist George Church observes: “If we think epigenetically, we can see that we can make the cells industriously do the repair themselves.”
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Blumenbach has already brought forward the existence of galls as an argument against preformation, holding them to be structures produced epigenetically, and, therefore, unrepresented by rudiments in the germ.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
