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Biogenesis   Listen
noun
Biogeny, Biogenesis  n.  (Biol.)
(a)
1.
A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; called also biogeny; opposed to abiogenesis.
(b)
Life development generally.
2.
The production of a chemical compound by a living organism.
Synonyms: biosynthesis.





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... fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^, procreation, progeneration^, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen &c 357. spontaneous generation; archegenesis^, archebiosis^; biogenesis, abiogenesis^, digenesis^, dysmerogenesis^, eumerogenesis^, heterogenesis^, oogenesis, merogenesis^, metogenesis^, monogenesis^, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^, xenogenesis1^; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre. biogeny^, dissogeny^, xenogeny^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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