This was called preformation, and if true it meant that after fertilization's stimulating effect, all that was needed was for the miniature organism to grow.
This view took several forms, each maintaining that organisms were passed on from one generation to the next, miniature and yet fully formed, and development was simply the growth of the miniature organism.
Preformationism was held as the dominant perception of development, and describes the existence of a miniature organism that expands without increasing complexity within the germ cell.
In particular, miniature goats enjoy being brushed.
Lit with strings of flyspecked low-wattage bulbs, it is — or was — an Arabia in miniature; a lovely, complex urban organism that had, when I was there, in 1978, collapsed gracefully into the fifteenth century.
Following inversion, the juvenile organism resembles a miniature adult; it will increase in size (without further cell division) by depositing large quantities of ECM.
The swine (Sus scrofa domesticus), particularly the miniature breeds, has been used as an important biomedical model organism for human disease studies because of the similarity in size, anatomy and physiology, as well as in organ development and disease progression with those of human.
As miniature reef ecosystems are re-created in home aquariums, collection and sale of organisms that provide an ecosystem service analogous to their ecosystem process have increased [19].
It was first used in biology to describe the development of the embryo: "Early embryologists believed that the growth of the organism was no more than an expansion of a preexisting miniature, a process which fits the literal meaning of evolution" (Bowler 2003 p. 8).
Of non-autonomous DNA transposons, a group of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs) first discovered in maize were found to be widespread in various higher organisms [ 4- 9].
