ontogeny - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'ontogeny' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.

Meaning of 'ontogeny' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . ontogeny

[ n]

Meaning (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

Example in sentence:

he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children

Nearby Words:

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Ontogeny
Ontogeny is the evolution and development of an individual organism.

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