e/Bootstrapping (biology)

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has gloss	eng: The idea of bootstrapping is significant in a number of fields in the biological sciences. The process by which a fertilised ovum develops into an embryo, particularly the way in which the nuclear genome is expressed differently in its various cells as these differentiate, is one example of bootstrapping. The evolution of progressively better adapted organs through natural selection in a lineage of organisms is another.
lexicalization	eng: bootstrapping
instance of	(noun) the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms embryology