Biogenesis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnəsɪs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Biogenesis is a noun meaning The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
Meaning
The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
More Meanings
- Biosynthesis.
Example Sentences
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape; […] It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the contrary doctrine—that living matter may be produced by not living matter—the hypothesis of Abiogenesis.
Word Forms
- biogeneses
Synonyms for biogenesis
Depending on context, synonyms include biosynthesis.
Antonyms for biogenesis
Common opposites include abiogenesis.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biosynthesis, peroxisomal, chloroplast, autogenesis, abiogenesis, biogenesist.
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