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embryogenesis.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
MEANING

The processes through which an embryo forms and develops.

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an organism developing from an early stage; body organization emerging; developmental timing in an experiment; embryo formation distinguished from adult healing

Words that belong together

  • early embryogenesis
  • stages of embryogenesis

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The altered conditions affected early embryogenesis without changing the stored DNA sequence.
She compared the stages of embryogenesis before calling the structures homologous.

Nearby words

embryonic development

Related words

embryonic developmentembryo formationembryogenic
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embryogenesis

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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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