Phylogenesis vs. Ontogenesis

Phylogenesisnoun

Evolutionary development of a species.

Phylogenesisnoun

The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

Phylogenesisnoun

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

Phylogenesis

Phylogenesis (from Greek φῦλον phylon + γένεσις genesis ) is the biological process by which a taxon (of any rank) appears. The science that studies these processes is called phylogenetics.These terms may be confused with the term phylogenetics, the application of molecular - analytical methods (i.e.

Ontogenesisnoun

the generation and development of an individual organism by the characteristic process of ontogeny associated with its species.

Ontogenesisnoun

The history of the individual development of an organism; the sequence of events involved in the 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.

Ontogenesisnoun

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;