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Production of a chemical compound by a living organism
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biogenesis
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bio-genesis , 1870, "theory that living organisms arise only from pre-existing living matter," coined by English biologist T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) from Greek bios "life" (see bio- ) + -genesis "birth, origin, creation." Related: Biogenetic ; biogenetical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biogenesis \Bi`o*gen"e*sis\, Biogeny \Bi*og"e*ny\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + ?, ?, birth.] (Biol.) 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Biogenesis " is the twenty-second episode and the sixth season finale of the science fiction television series The X-Files . The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on May 16, 1999 on the Fox Network , and aired in the United Kingdom and ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. production of a chemical compound by a living organism [syn: biosynthesis ] the production of living organisms from other living organisms [syn: biogeny ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
Usage examples of biogenesis.
Limit the available information, and locating sites of biogenesis became a kind of Easter egg hunt.
You see, after Summer House mapped your cell structure, the data was scattered in packets throughout the biogenesis function to make it harder to detect.
Summer House has used the biogenesis function to disguise illegal data.
Rhodes pacified him, though, by congratulating him heartily on the new line of work, asking to see further studies, promising to take the topic of renewed biogenesis up at the very next meeting of the directors.
Jupiter and Europa might be more probable places, but they could not yet, if ever, be regarded as accessible ones where biogenesis seemed likely to occur.
One of the biogenesis trillionaires acquired the land, then, with considerable fanfare, built the mansion, and for a moment or two, there was no more famous address in the solar system.
But each rare glimpse at a separate accident of biogenesis cast light on the nature and prospects of life.
CHAPTER 26 The biogenesis function was an awesome assemblage of information.
Summer House has used the biogenesis function to disguise illegal data.
Now it was a tangle of riotous growth, a jungle where plants and autotrophs from myriad worlds had broken out of their assigned places, curling round the disap pearing latticework, intermingling in a bedlam of anar chic biogenesis.
Now it was a tangle of riotous growth, a jungle where plants and autotrophs from myriad worlds had broken out of their assigned places, curling round the disappearing latticework, intermingling in a bedlam of anarchic biogenesis.