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| 1. | the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated. |
| 2. | a brief review or summary, as of a speech. |
| 3. | Biology. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage. |
| 4. | Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement. |

bi·o·gen·e·sis (bī'ō-jěn'ĭ-sĭs) n.
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re·ca·pit·u·la·tion (rē'kə-pĭch'ə-lā'shən) n.
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