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Ontogeny   /ɑntˈɑdʒəni/   Listen
noun
Ontogeny, Ontogenesis  n.  (Biol.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the sequence of events involved in the 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.
Synonyms: growth, growing, maturation, development.






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"Ontogeny" Quotes from Famous Books



... characters allowed to produce real effects by the removal of a host of inhibiting factors, is incredible. The truth is that biological processes are not within our powers of conception as those of physics and chemistry are, and Bateson's hypothesis is nothing but the old theory of preformation in ontogeny. Just as the old embryologists conceived the adult individual to be contained with all its organs to the most minute details within the protoplasm of the fertilised ovum or one of the gametes, so the ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham



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