ontogeny – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
ontogeny
n.
life cycle of a single organism (Biology)
Ontogeny
Ontogeny (also
ontogenesis or
morphogenesis) is the origination and development of an
organism, usually from the time of
fertilization of the
egg to the organism's mature form. Yet, the term can be used to refer to the study of the entirety of an organism's lifespan.
ontogeny
Noun
1. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
(synonym) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogenesis
(hypernym) organic process, biological process
(hyponym) culture
(part-meronym) gastrulation
(classification) biology, biological science
(class) isometry
Ontogeny
(n.)
The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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