OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 41712

biogenesis

/bʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnəsɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
biogénesis
The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
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 hypothes…
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 evoluti…
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