Crossword-Solution: ONTOGENY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ontogeny | n. | The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny. |
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| Development of an organism | 1 answer |
| Life history of individual organism: Biol. | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with ONTOGENY (5)
For many brachiopods, both recent and fossil, the individual development, or ontogeny, has been worked out and has proved to be of great assistance in the problems of classification and phylogeny.
Weismann, A., his germ-plasm theory.--on ontogeny.--and Prichard.--and Spencer.--on the transmission of acquired characters.--various.
Little by little I became familiar with the principles of embryonic evolution, ontogeny, and of biological evolution, phylogeny; realized, for the first time, my own history and that of the ancestors from whom I had developed and descended.
The story of the evolution of man, as it has hitherto been expounded to medical students, has usually been confined to embryology--more correctly, ontogeny--or the science of the development of the individual human organism.
The chief source that it draws upon for facts is "Ontogeny," or embryology, the science of the development of the individual organism.
Quotes with ONTOGENY (2)
In the last 25 years, criticism of most theories advanced by Darwin and the neo-Darwinians has increased considerably, and so did their defense. Darwinism has become an ideology, while the most significant theories of Darwin were proven unsupportable. The critics advanced other theories instead of 'natural selection' and the survival of the fittest'. 'Saltatory ontogeny' and 'epigenesis' are such new theories proposed to explain how variations in ontogeny and novelties in evo…
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1946–1994).