Meaning preformation
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preformationThe erroneous idea that gametes contain miniaturized versions of all of the elements present in an adult. prehensile
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preformationThe view that an embryo develops through the unfolding of preexisting form. This view contrasts with epigenesis
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preformation(n) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
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