BIOGENESIS
\bˌa͡ɪə͡ʊd͡ʒˈɛnɪsˌɪs], \bˌaɪəʊdʒˈɛnɪsˌɪs], \b_ˌaɪ_əʊ_dʒ_ˈɛ_n_ɪ_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of BIOGENESIS
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The origin of life. It includes studies of the potential basis for life in organic compounds but excludes studies of the development of altered forms of life through mutation and natural selection, which is EVOLUTION.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The production of living things from living things; opposed to abiogenesis.
By William R. Warner
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In biol. 1, that department of science which speculates on the mode by which new species have been introduced: specifically, that view of this doctrine which holds that living organisms can spring only from living parents. Biogenesis is opposed to abiogenesis, and was first vigorously supported by Redi, an Italian philosopher of the seventeenth century: 2, the history of life development generally, as distinguished from ontogenesis, or the history of individual development, and from phylogenesis, or the history of genealogical development.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The doctrine of the generation or evolution of organisms from preexisting organisms, as opposed to abiogenesis. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Holocrystalline
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