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Developmental biology
explores the processes by which individual organisms grow and develop (ontogeny) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Developmental biology is the study of how organisms grow and develop.
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Modern developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, differentiation and morphogenesis.[1] These are the processes which turn a zygote into an adult animal.