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• culture go
  (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
  
• amelogenesis go
  the developmental process of forming tooth enamel
  
• angiogenesis go
  the formation of new blood vessels
  
• apposition go
  (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
  
• auxesis go
  growth from increase in cell size without cell division
  
• efflorescence, inflorescence, blossoming, flowering, florescence, anthesis go
  the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
  
• cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis go
  introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
  
• cohesion go
  (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
  
• cultivation go
  the process of fostering the growth of something
  
• cytogenesis, cytogeny go
  the origin and development and variation of cells
  
• foliation, leafing go
  (botany) the process of forming leaves
  
• fructification go
  the bearing of fruit
  
• gametogenesis go
  the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis
  
• germination, sprouting go
  the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
  
• habit go
  the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
  
• infructescence go
  the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
  
• intussusception go
  (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
  
• juvenescence go
  the process of growing into a youth
  
• life cycle go
  the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
  
• masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation go
  the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
  
• morphogenesis go
  differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism)
  
• myelinization, myelinisation go
  the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber
  
• neurogenesis go
  the development of nerve tissues
  
• recapitulation, palingenesis go
  emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
  
• proliferation go
  growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
  
• psychogenesis go
  a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
  
• psychogenesis go
  the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors
  
• psychomotor development go
  progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities
  
• psychosexual development go
  (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
  
• rooting go
  the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
  
• suppression go
  the failure to develop some part or organ
  
• dentition, teething, odontiasis go
  the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
  
• teratogenesis go
  the development of defects in an embryo
  
• vegetation go
  the process of growth in plants