developmental biology
noun
: a discipline of biology concerned with the processes and mechanisms that control and influence the development and growth of organisms especially from a molecular, cellular, or genetic perspective see evolutionary developmental biology
developmental biologist noun
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Amazing new technologies in developmental biology and genetics research are allowing scientists to begin to answer long standing questions such as – how does a single fertilized egg cell transform into a complex animal? 
David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022 While there is little disagreement about the basic developmental biology, there are sharp differences about the significance. New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022 In recent years, researchers have found evidence for pattern completion in both neural circuits and developmental biology. Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021 These recent experiments from developmental biology and neuroscience can now provide a common mechanism of how this could work via key nodes that generate pattern completion. Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021 Zach double majored in chemical engineering and economics, while Nigel got his degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021 The departments to be consolidated in Pasadena are plant biology and global ecology, which are currently located at Stanford University, and embryology (or developmental biology), located at Johns Hopkins University. Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2021 The xenobots are turning some conventional views in developmental biology upside down. Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021 Thomas Hope, professor of cell and developmental biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a COVID-19 vaccine researcher, said that technology does not exist. John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2020 See More
David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022 While there is little disagreement about the basic developmental biology, there are sharp differences about the significance. New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022 In recent years, researchers have found evidence for pattern completion in both neural circuits and developmental biology. Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021 These recent experiments from developmental biology and neuroscience can now provide a common mechanism of how this could work via key nodes that generate pattern completion. Rafael Yuste, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2021 Zach double majored in chemical engineering and economics, while Nigel got his degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021 The departments to be consolidated in Pasadena are plant biology and global ecology, which are currently located at Stanford University, and embryology (or developmental biology), located at Johns Hopkins University. Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2021 The xenobots are turning some conventional views in developmental biology upside down. Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021 Thomas Hope, professor of cell and developmental biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a COVID-19 vaccine researcher, said that technology does not exist. John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1877, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
developmental biology
noun
: a discipline of biology concerned with the processes and mechanisms that control and influence the development and growth of organisms especially from a molecular, cellular, or genetic perspective