Words Like PREFORMATION

We have put together a list of words that are similar to PREFORMATION.

1 Alternative Words Similar to preformation

1 Theory Noun Synonym Words Like Theory

4 definitions of preformation

1 Antecedent formation; shaping in advance.

2 Prior formation.

3 The theory that organisms are fully developed in the form of an egg or seed, and just increase in size (as opposed to epigenesis.

4 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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