BIOGENETIC LAW


Meaning of BIOGENETIC LAW in English

[biogenetic law] n (1882): a theory of development much disputed in biology: an organism passes through successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual is a recapitulation of the phylogeny of the group

Merriam-Webster English vocab.      Английский словарь Merriam Webster.