Category:Ontogenesis

On`to*gen"e*sis, on*tog"e*ny, n. Etym: [see ontology, and genesis.] (biol.)

Defn: 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.