Developmental biology/Related Articles

Developmental biology: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. ^[e]

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Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from non-living systems. ^[e]
• Ontogenesis [r]: The morphological changes undergone by an individual throughout life, and its earliest stages in particular. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Embryogenesis [r]: The formation of an organism, starting with its first cell division. ^[e]
• Embryo [r]: An organism in its earliest phase of development. ^[e]
• Fetus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hatching [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Birth [r]: In non-egg-laying animals, the moment in which the offspring leaves the body of the mother (in some species, for the first time) or, in very few cases, of the father. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Fertilization [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • In vitro fertilization [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Parthenogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. ^[e]
• Evolutionary developmental biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reproduction (biology) [r]: The production of a genetically identical or similar copy of an organism. ^[e]

• Reproductive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gynecology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neonatology [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with infants. ^[e]

• Child development [r]: The ensemble of processes that transform an infant into an adolescent. ^[e]
• Abortion [r]: The deliberate expulsion of an embryo or foetus from the womb for the purpose of ending a pregnancy. ^[e]

• Developmental disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neurodevelopmental disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description