Associations to the word «Ontogeny»

Wiktionary

ONTOGENY, noun. The development of an individual organism.

Dictionary definition

ONTOGENY, noun. (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".

Wise words

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