See Also: Ontogeny(medicine)
Ontogeny(health)
ontogeny(dictionary)

ontogeny (iou)



ontogeny noun. L19.
[from ONTO- + -GENY.]
Biology. The origin and development of the individual organism; ontogenesis. L19.
J. B. Watson The recapitulation theory..holds..that ontogeny repeats phylogeny.
The branch of science that deals with ontogenesis. L19.
onto'genic adjective = ONTOGENETIC L19.
onto'genically adverb L19.
ontogenist noun L19.