| AUTOGENY | • autogeny n. Spontaneous generation. • AUTOGENY n. spontaneous generation. |
| CRYOGENY | • cryogeny n. (Dated) cryogenics. • CRYOGENY n. a branch of physics. |
| CYTOGENY | • cytogeny n. (Biology) cell production or development; cytogenesis. • CYTOGENY n. the formation of cells. |
| ECTOGENY | • ectogeny n. (Botany) The effect of pollen on parts of the seed and fruit lying outside the embryo and endosperm. • ECTOGENY n. the effect of pollen on the tissues of a plant. |
| ENDOGENY | • endogeny n. Growth from within. • ENDOGENY n. growth from within. |
| HEGUMENY | • HEGUMENY n. the office of hegumen, the head of a monastery. |
| HOMOGENY | • homogeny n. (Biology) Similarity in structure, though of different function, because of genetic relationships. • HOMOGENY n. similarity due to origin. |
| LYSOGENY | • lysogeny n. The incorporation of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage into that of a host bacterium; sometimes transmitted… • LYSOGENY n. the state of being like a lysogen. |
| MONOGENY | • monogeny n. Synonym of monogenesis. • monogeny n. (Anthropology) The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin. • MONOGENY n. the (theoretical) common origin of the human species, esp. from one pair of ancestors. |
| NOMOGENY | • nomogeny n. The origination of life according to natural law, not by a miracle. • NOMOGENY n. natural rather than religious account of the origin of life. |
| ONTOGENY | • ontogeny n. Ontogenesis. • ONTOGENY n. the development of an individual organism. |
| POLYGENY | • polygeny n. Polygenesis. • polygeny n. The control of a single trait, or phenotype, by multiple genes. • POLYGENY n. generation from multiple origins. |
| POLYTENY | • polyteny n. (Molecular biology) The presence within a cell of polytene chromosomes (large chromosomes with multiple… • POLYTENY n. in abnormally large chromosomes, the state of being composed of many reduplicated strands. |
| XENOGENY | • xenogeny n. Xenogenesis. • XENOGENY n. the production of offspring totally different from the parent. |