biogenesis

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (uncountable, usually) The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
2. (uncountable, usually) Biosynthesis.

Sinonieme

biogeny

biosynthesis

germ theory

Vertalings

biogenèse

biogénesis

biogênese

βιογένεση

biogènesi

biogenesi

biyogenez

Biogenese

biogenese

biogénèse

biogenesis

biogenia

biosintesi

نُشُوء أحْيائِيّ

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnəsɪs/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os, “life”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source; manner of birth; creation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production”)). The words biogenesis and abiogenesis were both coined by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) in 1870 (see the quotation).
The word biogenesis was first used by English physiologist and neurologist Henry Charlton Bastian (1837–1915) around 1869 to mean “life-origination or commencement” in an unpublished exchange of correspondence with Irish physicist John Tyndall. However, in an 1871 book, Bastian announced he was adopting a new term, archebiosis, because of the confusion that might be caused by Huxley’s use of biogenesis with a different meaning.
Equivalent to bio- + genesis.