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ontogenetic, a.|ˌɒntəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk|
[f. prec. after genetic.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ontogenesis; relating to the development of the individual being.
1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 517 This union is effected during their ontogenetic development. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (1884) 293 What the Germans call ‘ontogenetic directive Force’. 1894Times 5 May 6/6 The disappearance of a typical organ..was..shown to be not an ontogenetic but a phylogenetic process.
So ˌontogeˈnetical a. rare. Hence ˌontogeˈnetically adv., with reference to ontogenesis.
1872Elsberg in Microsc. Jrnl. July 185 A series of gradations..through which higher organisms have passed phylogenetically and do pass ontogenetically (embryonically). 1894Contemp. Rev. Aug. 265 From a psychological as well as from an ethnological point of view (ontogenetically and phylogenetically as the biologist would say). 1965Sci. World IX. iv. 4/2, I propose to classify the processes which concern biologists as molecular, physiological, ontogenetical, historical and evolutionary. |