androgeny | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgenesis |
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anthropogeny | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogenesis |
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autogeny | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogenesis, spontaneous generation |
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biogeny | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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cosmogeny | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogony, cosmology |
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cryogeny | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogenics |
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cytogeny | (noun) the origin and development and variation of cells | Synonyms: cytogenesis |
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endogeny | (noun) a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth | - |
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homogeny | (noun) (biology) similarity because of common evolution | - |
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lysogeny | (noun) the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | Synonyms: lysogenicity |
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ontogeny | (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 | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis |
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orogeny | (noun) the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust) | - |
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parthenogeny | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogenesis |
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(noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogenesis, virgin birth |
phylogeny | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis |
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progeny | (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, offspring |
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