Definitions for "Ontogeny"
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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.
The growth and development of an individual from embryo to adult.
The patterned development of a plant through sequential development, differentiation, and senescence.
The sum of individual morphogenic processes and event, that describe plant development from seed germination through maturity.
the developmental history of an organism.
Growth history (development) of an organism during its lifetime.
Developmental biology. The ontogeny of the brain refers to the events and processes by which the brain develops to attain its mature form and function.
The origin and development of an organism from embryo to adult.
the developmental history of the individual, as opposed to the group ( phylogeny)
Process by which an individual living creature develops into its adult form, contrasted with phylogeny, that is, the process by which in evolution particular species acquire their characteristic properties.
The development of a zooid (cf. astogeny) (Pitt & Taylor, 1991).
The development and growth of an individual organism from zygote until death, often conceived as being through progressive stages. See also Life-history return to the top of the page return to the top of the page return to the top of the page return to the top of the page
The series of growth stages of a particular organism.
Study of development of an organism
The development or growth of an organism, particularly as an embryo.
Life cycle of a single organism; biological development of the individual.
(on- toj-en-ee) The embryonic development of an organism.
( Genet.). Development history of an individual organism over its whole life cycle; often extended to cover that of a taxonomic group, e.g. species. Cf. Phylogeny. ( BCFT).
the development of a single organism, i.e. the sequence of stages through which it passes during its lifetime.
vs. phylogeny: ontogeny is a term used by anthropologists to refer to the development of the individual; phylogeny is the companion term referring to the evolution of the species. Social psychologists and others have posited an analogy between the two, expressed by the statement "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." The analogy was believed to illuminate the perceived relationship between human children in the stage of neoteny and "primitive" people whose fears and anxieties expressed themselves in myth and ritual. Thus the child whose fear of adults is symbolized by the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk would be analogous to the "primitive" people who envisioned lands where monsters were at large, as in the story of the Cyclops in The Odyssey.
the course of development of an individual organism
The pattern of individual development in a living organism.
The development of an individual organism, especially the process studied in the science of embryology.
The development of an individual or a character. In behavioural ecology the ontogenetic explanation of a behaviour would be to do with when the it arose in the life history.
The development of the organism from the sex cells ('gametes') to birth ('partition' in animals). It includes the 'zygote' and 'fetal' stages.
the course of growth and development of an individual to maturity.
the developmental history of an individual, from zygote or meiospore to death.
an organisms embryonic development (how an organism develops from and egg to an adult)
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.