Syngenesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Sexual reproduction.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The genetic origin of an individual derived from material from both parents (by sexual reproduction)
  • n. descent from a common ancestor
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Reproduction in which a male and a female take part, one furnishing spermatozoa and the other an ovum, so that the substance of the embryo is actually derived from both parents.
    • Word Usage
    "Growth, therefore, was, on this hypothesis, a process partly of simple evolution, and partly of what has been termed "syngenesis.""
    Antonym
    epigenesis   
     
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