life cycle vs ontogeny

ontogeny vs life cycle

life cycle and ontogeny both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
life cycle	Yes	No	No	No
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ontogeny is a hypernym of life cycle; that is, ontogeny is a word with a broader meaning than life cycle:

life cycle: the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
ontogeny: (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

Other hypernyms of life cycle include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.

life cycle (noun)	ontogeny (noun)
a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage	(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
the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

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