Definition of ontogenesis in English:

noun

• The development of an individual organism or anatomical or behavioural feature from the earliest stage to maturity.

  Compare with phylogenesis

  Example sentences

  • ‘The concepts of penetrance and expressivity and also of the systemic regulation of the formation of phenotypic traits - the foundation of phenogenetics and the genetics of ontogenesis.’
  • ‘Some degree of variation seems attributable to ontogenesis, as large morphological distances are observed between young and adult specimens.’
  • ‘Since this field of biogenesis is not available to us, we shall do as biologists do and turn to ontogenesis.’
  • ‘Ductal plate malformation results from persistence or absence of remodeling of the embryonic ductal plate during ontogenesis.’
  • ‘Shepard proposes that humans go through eight stages of ontogenesis in their first twenty years of life.’