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Define neotony and pedogenesis

Answer 1

neoteny - Medical Definition

n. The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adults of a species, as among certain amphibians. In this sense also called pedomorphism. The attainment of sexual maturity and subsequent reproduction by an organism still in its larval stage. In this sense also called pedogenesis.

Answer 2

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Neoteny is the condition in which an organism reaches maturity without losing all of its juvenile characteristics. Typical examples would include becoming sexually viable while still in a larvae stage or retention of gills in an adult.

Pedogenesis. ... Pedogenesis (from the Greek pedo-, or pedon, meaning 'soil, earth,' and genesis, meaning 'origin, birth') (also termed soil development, soil evolution, soil formation, and soil genesis) is the process of soil formation as regulated by the effects of place, environment, and history.

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