Epigenesis
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Epigenesis may refer to:
- Epigenesis (biology)Epigenesis (biology)In biology, epigenesis has at least two distinct meanings:* the unfolding development in an organism, and in particular the development of a plant or animal from an egg or spore through a sequence of steps in which cells differentiate and organs form;...
, describes morphogenesis and development of an organism - By analogy, a philosophical and theological concept, part of the concept of spiritual evolutionSpiritual evolutionSpiritual evolution is the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings and/or human culture evolve, extending from the established cosmological pattern or ascent, or in accordance with certain pre-established potentials...
- The Epigenesis, a 2010 album by Melechesh
See also
- EpigeneticsEpigeneticsIn biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence – hence the name epi- -genetics...
, changes in gene expression due to mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence