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Ontogeny Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
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.
(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.
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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
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
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ontogeny
ontogeny
n : 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" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogenesis]
[ant: nondevelopment]
ontogeny
n : 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" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogenesis]
[ant: nondevelopment]
Ontogeny Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Ontogeny
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Ontogeny Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems |
Ontogeny
the history of the structural transformations of a unity. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)
the history of the structural transformations of a unity. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)
Ontogeny Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Ontogeny
Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) describes the origin and the development of an organism from the fertilized egg to its mature form. Ontogeny is studied in developmental biology.
More generally, Ontogeny is defined as the history of structural change in a unity, which can be a cell, an organism, or a society of organisms, without the loss of the organization that allows that unity to exist (Maturana and Varela, 1987, p. 74).
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