(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;
"he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
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This study means significant to the ontogeny of Isoetes. 本研究对水韭属植物个体发育具有借鉴意义。
Ontogeny means the origin and development of the individual being. 个体发生学研究的是生物个体的起源和发展。
