資料來源 : pyDict
個體發生,個體發生學
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ontogenesis \On`to*gen"e*sis\, Ontogeny \On*tog"e*ny\, n. [See
{Ontology}, and {Genesis}.] (Biol.)
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}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
ontogeny
n : (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" [syn: {growth}, {growing},
{maturation}, {development}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]