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Title: What is the term given to the theory which states that the fertilized egg contains a complete miniature adult?
Post by: Engineer on Mar 26, 2020

Question 1

In the 1600s, William Harvey studied reproduction and development. What is the term given to the theory which states that an organism develops from the fertilized egg by a succession of developmental events that lead to an adult?
◦ transduction
◦ equational transformation
◦ sequential pattern formation
◦ epigenesis
◦ preformation

Question 2

What is the term given to the theory which states that the fertilized egg contains a complete miniature adult?
◦ conjugation
◦ transduction
◦ transformation
◦ cell theory
◦ preformation

Title: What is the term given to the theory which states that the fertilized egg contains a complete miniature adult?
Post by: TINA on Mar 26, 2020

Answer 1

epigenesis

Answer 2

preformation