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epigenics

epigenics noun: the way in which something develops as a result of its environment.

Noun

epigenics (uncountable)

  1. The way in which something develops as a result of its environment.
    • They too hoped to guide 20th century biology into the mainstream of hard-nosed science, but embryologists saw the gene as a disguised homunculus and rejected it. They returned to epigenics and promoted it as rival to the theory of the gene.1991, Stanley Shostak, Embryology: an introduction to developmental biology, page 479
    • Epigenics at its most radical said that anything could become anything else: development was just a matter of physics, chemical fluxes, and environmental manipulation.2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, page 63

Questions about epigenics

What does epigenics mean?
Epigenics means the way in which something develops as a result of its environment.
What part of speech is epigenics?
Epigenics is a noun.

Words near epigenics in the dictionary

  1. epigeneticist
  2. epigeneticists
  3. epigeneticity
  4. epigenetics
  5. epigenic
  6. epigenics
  7. epigenist
  8. epigenists
  9. epigenome
  10. epigenomes
  11. epigenomic

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