ontogeny vs life cycle

life cycle vs ontogeny

ontogeny and life cycle both are nouns.

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

As nouns, life cycle is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, life cycle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ontogeny:

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

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

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

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