ontogeny
Let an agent explain ontogeny as individual development and its stages and processes, describe its relation to evolution and phylogeny with attribution, support learning in developmental biology, and separate biological from psychological uses.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain ontogeny as individual development and its stages and processes, describe its relation to evolution and phylogeny with attribution, support learning in developmental biology, and separate biological from psychological uses.
The development of an individual organism from fertilisation or origin through embryonic and juvenile stages to maturity and ageing, encompassing processes such as tissue and organ formation, tooth development, moult cycles in arthropods, growth responses to gravity, and timing shifts known as heterochrony, and studied in developmental biology, comparative anatomy and evolutionary biology in relation to phylogeny; ontogeny is also a term in psychology for individual development.
What it is for: Development of an individual organism.
It can be explain stages and processes; describe relation to evolution; support learning; separate uses.
Distinguishing features
Individual level
Staged
Genetically and environmentally shaped
Evolutionary relevance
What it looks like
Not physical; a developmental process.
How it is recognised
Development of one organism over its life
Embryo, juvenile, adult, ageing
Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of lineages; growth is one aspect of ontogeny
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - cell division in development
is related to - skull growth during ontogeny
is related to - normal growth as part of ontogeny
In practice
Families and kinds
embryonic development
postnatal growth and maturation
tooth and organ development
moult cycles and metamorphosis
ageing and life history
Standards and regulation
Developmental staging systems
Research ethics for embryo research
No regulation of the concept
Failure modes and hazards
Repeating the discredited recapitulation law
Confusing ontogeny with phylogeny
Conflating biological and psychological senses
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What ontogeny is.
Biology.
Concept
Concept and stages.
Concept
Concept.
- What is ontogeny, and what stages and processes does it include from fertilisation to ageing? definition
- Is the biological or psychological sense meant? boundary
Processes
Key processes.
Processes
Processes.
- How do tissue and organ formation, tooth development, moulting and metamorphosis proceed? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific process? action
Evolution Ontogeny and evolution.
Science.
Phylogeny
Relation to phylogeny.
Phylogeny
Phylogeny.
- How does ontogeny relate to phylogeny, and why was the recapitulation law rejected, according to biologists? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Heterochrony
Heterochrony.
Heterochrony
Heterochrony.
- What is heterochrony, and how do timing changes in development drive evolution? provenance
- Which entry fits evolutionary developmental biology? action
Study Studying development.
Practice.
Methods
Methods.
Methods
Methods.
- How is ontogeny studied through staging, imaging, genetics and model organisms? provenance
- Which entry fits developmental biology? action
Environment
Environmental influences.
Environment
Environment.
- How do environment and factors such as gravity shape development? provenance
- Which entry fits plasticity? action
Learn History and teaching.
Education.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the concept of ontogeny develop from Haeckel to modern developmental biology? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can ontogeny be taught? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should embryonic development be a separate entry?
- How should staging resources be linked?
- How should evolutionary developmental biology be linked?