Ontogeny

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title: Ontogeny
text: Ontogeny is the origination and development of an organism, usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult. The term can also be used to refer to the study of the entirety of an organism's lifespan. Ontogeny is the developmental history of an organism within its own lifetime, as distinct from phylogeny, which refers to the evolutionary history of a species. Another way to think of ontogeny is that it is the process of an organism going through all of the developmental stages over its
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description: Origination and development of an organism
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontogeny
date created: 2001-09-14T09:29:27Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T18:04:49Z
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