Ontogeny
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From gr. ὄ̓́ντος (óntos) ‘being’ and γένεσις (genesis) ‘origin, birth’
In biology, the entire process of an organism’s development, that is, the successive series of stages and progressive changes through which the egg (or oosphere in plants) and subsequently the embryo pass in an ordered sequence over time, giving rise to an individual of that particular species.
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Credits
Special thanks to Damiano Furlan for creating the slides.