ontogeny
on·to·geny
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”
Origin
From onto- + -geny, after German Ontogenie.
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