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Ontogenesis

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Noun
  1. 1
    The generation and development of an individual organism from fertilization to adulthood. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (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 wordnet

Etymology

From onto- + -genesis.

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