epigenesis

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed.
2. noun Changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation.

Similar words

preformation epigenesist palingenesis epigenist perigenesis embryogeny epigeneticist embryonization ectogenesis embryogenesis

Often followed by

of and in is as was to or theory

Word family

epigeneses