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Abiogenesis
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Etymology
Greek a privvative. + life + origin, birth.
Noun
- (Biology): The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis
- Quotations
- I shall call the ... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis - Huxley, 1870
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Related words
Romanica
Noun
abiogenesis f
- abiogenesis, spontaneous generation
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