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- Ontogeny - n. - The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.
- Morphogeny - n. - History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny.