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Ontogenetic :: Ontogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena..

Transformism :: Transformism (n.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis..

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

Genesis :: Genesis (n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination..

Chondrogenesis :: Chondrogenesis (n.) The development of cartilage.

Palingenesis :: Palingenesis (n.) Alt. of Palingenes.

Histogenesis :: Histogenesis (n.) Germ history of cells, and of the tissues composed of cells..

Kenogenesis :: Kenogenesis (n.) Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis..

Syngnathi :: Syngenesis (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

Pathogenesis :: Pathogenesis (n.) Pathogeny.

Paedogenesis :: Paedogenesis (n.) Reproduction by young or larval animals.

Glycogenesis :: Glycogenesis (n.) The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver..

Amphigenesis :: Amphigenesis (n.) Sexual generation; amphigony.

Genesis :: Genesis (n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race..

Biogenist :: Biogenist (n.) A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

Monogenic :: Monogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.

Electrogenic :: Electrogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition..

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are the

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