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ontogeny vs recapitulation

recapitulation vs ontogeny

ontogeny and recapitulation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
ontogeny Yes No No No
recapitulation Yes No No No
As nouns, recapitulation is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, recapitulation 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
  • recapitulation: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
ontogeny (noun) recapitulation (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 (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Difference between ontogeny and recapitulation

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