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ontogeny

[ US /ɑnˈtɑdʒəni/ ]
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

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  • Similarly, a narrow window early in the ontogeny of colonial marine invertebrates, prior to the development of the allorecognition system, may allow the formation of chimeric entities PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Though to say phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny is obviously wrong. Cheeseburger Gothic » Snip snip.
  • These models stress the dynamics during ontogeny of the cellular components of growth and morphogenesis.
  • However helpful this removal can be, there needs also to be a cohesive model of homologies that can draw upon the integration of morphology, ontogeny, and paleontology.
  • We have reason, from comparative anatomy and ontogeny, to believe that it multiplied by sexual generation, not merely asexually (by cleavage, gemmation, and spores), as was no doubt the case with the earlier ancestors. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • It's not often I actually get excited by bivariate scatter plots, linear regression equations, and correlation coefficients, but the Archaeopteryx note is quite good, basically Bennett's defence of his interpretation of the nine known specimens of the taxon as a single "species," following from an awareness of interspecific variation resulting from ontogeny and, also, concerns about parsimony. As Kyle passes by.
  • Recall that the central theme of monism is the so-called biogenetic law stating that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
  • The genal spine of the very smallest specimens is about as long as the remainder of the cheek, and remains distinct until late in meraspid ontogeny.
  • The unusual change in shell coiling from dextral to sinistral during their ontogeny represents a character which makes their recognition in the fossil record easy.
  • Besides, we cannot regard ontogeny as a linear proc ess simply.
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