biogenesis

Definitions

1. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
   uncountable, usually
2. Biosynthesis.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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