adj
Of or pertaining to agamogenesis.
n
(biology) A halting of the growth of a colony of cells.
adj
(biology) Of a cell: Undergoing agonescence.
adj
Relating to allosyndesis
n
(biology) Sexual generation; amphigony
n
(botany) The formation of the flowers of plants.
adj
(anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the two stephanions
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(biology) The embryotic development of cross-species structures or characteristics.
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Alternative spelling of caenogenesis [(biology) The embryotic development of cross-species structures or characteristics.]
adj
(botany, anatomy) Relating to capsulogenesis
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Relating to catagenesis.
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Alternative spelling of caenogenesis [(biology) The embryotic development of cross-species structures or characteristics.]
n
(biology) To differentiate in parallel, as in embryonic or evolutionary development
adj
(biology) That forms a bacterial colony
n
(biology, rare) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
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Alternative spelling of caenogenesis [(biology) The embryotic development of cross-species structures or characteristics.]
adj
(biology) Describing a life cycle that has alternating haploid and diploid phases.
n
(psychology) The production of nervous energy, stimulation of the nerves.
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Relating to embryogenesis.
adj
(medicine) Originating within an organ or biological system.
n
(biology) dormancy brought about by internal (rather than environmental) factors
n
(biology) division into several organisms at once by internal budding
n
(ecology) The theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are organelles of eukaryotic cells, originated as independent organisms.
adj
Of or pertaining to ergoline.
adj
From outside of an organism or from the substrate.
n
Alternative form of fissipation [(biology) Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.]
adj
Of or pertaining to gametogenesis.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of genes.
adj
(figuratively) Highly influential; seminal.
n
(biology) reproduction by means of germs
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(physiology) The generation and development of the gonads.
adj
Relating to haplometrosis.
n
(biology) The synthesis of components of an egg by one of the parents
n
Obsolete form of homoeogenesis. [(biology) Production of living offspring between organisms belonging to the same species.]
n
Specifically, an embryo created artificially which combines human and animal DNA, in various proportions, for the purposes of medical research.
n
Alternative spelling of hylogenesis [(philosophy) The origin of matter.]
n
(biology, archaic) A plastid or unicellular organism, theoretically capable of development into a metazoan.
n
(biology) The differentiation of tissues.
adj
Of or relating to Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781-1833), German anatomist.
n
(biology) meiotic gynogenesis
adj
(biology) Relating to meiogynogenesis
adv
Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
n
(biology) Any form of growth; specifically, growth by increase in number of cells.
n
(social sciences technical jargon) The development, in discrete but generally imperceptible (seemingly continuous) increments, by the human body or brain, of thoughts, motions, or actions.
n
(biology, medicine) Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.
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Relating to a single telosome.
n
Alternative form of morphogenesis [(biology) The differentiation of tissues and subsequent growth of structures in an organism]
n
(biology) The formation of a biological structure from smaller subunits
n
(biology) The differentiation potential of a multipotent cell.
adj
Of or pertaining to oogenesis.
adj
Relating to ovogenesis
adj
(biology) Relating to paradormancy
n
A theory put forth by Russian palaeontologist Severtsov, postulating that phylogenetic changes in organisms are conditioned by ontogenetic alterations, in that certain events are added, modified or deleted in the development of an embryo based on the events of ancestral development.
n
(biology, historical) The theory that organisms are fully developed in the form of an egg or seed, and just increase in size (as opposed to epigenesis).
n
(biology) The original localization of structures in an unsegmented embryo that become specific organs in the adult
adj
Relating to previtellogenesis.
n
(chiefly British spelling, biology) Alternative spelling of paedogenesis
n
A form of artificial reproduction based on cloning in which a cloned embryo is implanted in a woman's uterus.
n
(botany) Alternative form of schizogeny [(biology) Creation of cavities by separating out existing cells.]
n
(biology) The formation of new setae
adj
Of or pertaining to spermatogenesis.
adj
Of or pertaining to steroidogenesis.
adj
Relating to stromagenesis
n
(genetics) The genetic origin of an individual derived from material from both parents (by sexual reproduction).
n
(dated, rare) A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction
adj
(biology) Relating to, or by means of tychoparthenogenesis
adj
Relating to vitellogenesis.
adj
Relating to vitellogenesis.
adj
Relating to vitellogenesis.
adj
Relating to zoogenesis
adj
Relating to zygogenesis.
adj
(biology) Relating to zygotene
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