ontogenesis
- noun
- /ˌɑn.təˈdʒɛn.ɪ.sɪs/
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ontogénesis
- Observing the ontogenesis of a fruit fly can reveal important insights into genetic development.
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Ultimately, only empirical observation of the ontogenesis of the cortex can establish how this developmental process unfolds.
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Third, there could be no gradient of differentiation aligned with neurogenetic timing; that is, the neuron density of newly formed areas varied randomly throughout ontogenesis.
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These results are discussed in relation to the ontogenesis of body image and the place of body image in personality and the development of depression.
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It is ontogenesis in action.
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First, areas could be more differentiated the later in ontogenesis they were formed (increasingly differentiated).
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For Simondon, however, transduction is a logic in and of itself; moreover, it is an onto-logic that concerns ontogenesis as such.
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Haeckel formulated the recapitulation theory, in which the ontogenesis of an individual is seen as an accelerated repetition of the phylogenesis.
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In fact, it has been suggested that cortical architecture correlates not only with neurogenetic time windows during ontogenesis, but also with the succession of architectural differentiation observed during brain evolution 60,71.
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Further refinement of the simulation, for example by introducing species-specific histogenetic time courses, will enable the exploration of species differences or potentially the demonstration of invariance to changes in some aspects of ontogenesis.
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The study of ontogenesis helps scientists understand how living organisms develop from a single cell into complex beings.
Synonyms
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The way a living thing grows and becomes more complex
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Becoming fully grown and developed, for example in people or wine
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The change and growth of an animal or plant from its earliest stage to adult
The development of a living thing from a fertilized egg through gradual changes
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ontogenesis comes from Greek parts onto- meaning 'being' and -genesis meaning 'birth' or 'origin', the same root you see in generate and genesis. So ontogenesis is the 'birth' and development of a single living thing, from its first cells to adulthood.