| Pronunciation: | | ân'tâjunee
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| Matching Terms: | | "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", ontogenesis, ontogenetic, ontogenic
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis |
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| | Antonyms: | | nondevelopment |
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| | See Also: | | amelogenesis, angiogenesis, anthesis, apposition, auxesis, biological process, blossoming, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cohesion, culture, cytogenesis, dentition, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, gastrulation, germination, inflorescence, intussusception, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, leafing, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, odontiasis, organic process, palingenesis, proliferation, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, recapitulation, rooting, sprouting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation, virilisation, virilization |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The developmental history of an organism. |
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| | Definition: | | the processes of growth and development of the individual from conception to death. |
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