ontogenesis vs cytogeny

cytogeny vs ontogenesis

ontogenesis and cytogeny both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogenesis	Yes	No	No	No
cytogeny	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cytogeny is a hyponym of ontogenesis; that is, cytogeny is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ontogenesis:

ontogenesis: (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
cytogeny: the origin and development and variation of cells

Other hyponyms of ontogenesis include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogenesis (noun)	cytogeny (noun)
(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 origin and development and variation of cells

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