(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.
It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.
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This oxidative modification may generate new epitopes for which tolerance is not achieved during ontogenesis.
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Investigating horn ontogenesis and the genetic pathway by which the POLLED variants prevent horn development has implications for cattle breeding.
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Imprinted genes in which only one of the two parental chromosome copies is expressed have a substantial effect on mammalian ontogenesis.
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Despite the total absence of inherited episodic memories, the stochastic input into his ontogenesis, the chaotically divergent nature of the iterative mind-building algorithms.