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Cenogenesis

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Noun

1. caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis

introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)

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Cenogenesis

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noun
a US spelling of caenogenesis

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Cenogenesis

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noun
the development of structures in the embryonic or larval stage of an organism that are adaptive and do not appear in the evolutionary history of its group
see also palingenesis

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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