organismal biology developmental biology http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D015509 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16501 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Developmental_biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_biology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213713 The study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and differentiation of stem cells in the adult organism.