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cenogenetic

Variant of cenogenesis

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

Origin: ceno- (< Gr kainos: see -cene) + -genesis

Related Forms:

cenogenetic adjective

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