(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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用作名詞(n.)
This study means significant to the ontogeny of Isoetes. 本研究對水韭屬植物個體發育具有借鑒意義。
Ontogeny means the origin and development of the individual being. 個體發生學研究的是生物個體的起源和發展。
常用短語
The recapitulation theory..holds..that ontogeny repeats phylogeny.