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Definition of Biogenesis

1. Noun. Production of a chemical compound by a living organism.

2. Noun. The production of living organisms from other living organisms.

Definition of Biogenesis

1. n. A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

Definition of Biogenesis

1. Noun. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms ¹

2. Noun. biosynthesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Biogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Biogenesis

1. The theory that life always arises from previously existing life, and never from things which are not alive (as would be the case for the theory of spontaneous generation). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biogenesis

biofunctionalisations biofunctionalised biofunctionalization biofunctionalizations biofunctionalized biofunctions biog biogas biogases biogasoline

biogen biogeneric biogenerics biogeneses biogenesis (current term) biogenetic biogenetic law biogenetical biogenetically biogenetics

biogenic biogenic amine neurotransmitters biogenic amines biogenic monoamines biogenic polyamines biogenies biogenist biogenists

Literary usage of Biogenesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"biogenesis versus SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. — The question of the origin and beginnings of life on the earth has always been obscure and perplexing to mankind ..."

2. Discourses Biological and Geological: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley (1897)
"... biogenesis AND Abiogenesis (THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE FOR 1870) IT has long been the custom for ..."

3. The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation Program: Technology Profiles (1993)
"Advantages of BioGenesis™ include (1) treatment of soils containing both volatile and nonvolatile oils, (2) treatment of soil containing up to 50 percent ..."

4. Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley (1873)
"X. biogenesis AND Abiogenesis. (THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE FOR 1870.) IT has long been the custom ..."

5. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"Causal Connection between Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis.— The Fundamental Law of biogenesis.—Palingenesis or Recapitulative Development. ..."

6. From Comte to Benjamin Kidd: The Appeal to Biology Or Evolution for Human by Robert Mackintosh (1899)
"... Law in the Spiritual World — "Biological religion," according to Finlayson — Drummond appeals to biogenesis — His religion is Calvinistic, rather, ..."

7. The Reformed Quarterly Review by Thomas G. Apple (1888)
"And now comes the failure of spontaneous generation in the hands of scientists and the consequent victory of biogenesis, and this triumph of life from above ..."

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