biogenesis

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Etymology

bio- + -genesis

Noun

biogenesis (uncountable)

1. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
   • 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83: 

     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.

2. Biosynthesis.

Translations

principle

• Catalan: biogènesi (ca) f
• Galician: bioxénese (gl) f

• Spanish: biogénesis (es) f

biosynthesis — see biosynthesis

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• Icelandic: lífkviknun (is)

• Irish: bithghineas (ga) m

Related terms

• abiogenesis