morphogenesis

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形态发生,形态发生学,形态形成,形态生成

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Embryology.
- : the development of structural features of an organism or part.

Therefore the elementary functions of the organism may properly be called the internal means of morphogenesis.
We therefore make no claim to offer a complete system of the internal elementary means of morphogenesis.
But, first of all, let us observe that the elementary means of morphogenesis are far from being morphogenesis themselves.
All means of morphogenesis are only to be considered as the most general frame of events within which morphogenesis occurs.
Weismann, we know already, had assumed that a sort of machine was the prime mover of morphogenesis.