单词 | biopoesis |
释义 | biopoesisn. = abiogenesis n. Cf. biogenesis n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > spontaneous spontaneous generation1656 equivocal generation1658 heterogeny1863 autogeny1867 abiogenesis1870 autogony1870 archebiosis1872 abiogeny1874 archigony1876 plasmogeny1876 plasmogony1904 biopoesis1953 1953 N. W. Pirie in Discovery Aug. 239/1 Biopoesis (the cognate adjective is biopoeic) seems a more suitable word than Huxley's abiogenesis for the making of life de novo. Words ending in genesis carry a sense of generation as in animals; the making of like by like. 1967 J. D. Bernal Origin of Life viii. 137 The modern view of biopoesis includes elements both of deterministic character and of the older teleological character. 1981 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 303 591 Conditions elsewhere may not have been any more favourable for biopoesis. 1998 Origins Life & Evol. Biosphere 28 515 If biosynthesis recapitulates biopoesis, then the synthesis of aminoacids preceded the synthesis of the purine and pyrimidine bases. Derivatives bioˈpoeic adj. [ < bio- comb. form + -poeic (in onomatopoeic adj., etc.), after biopoesis n.] rare of or relating to biopoesis. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > spontaneous epigenetic1830 heterogenetic1872 biopoeic1953 1953 N. W. Pirie in Discovery Aug. 239/1 Perhaps..there is no need to postulate any special biopoeic agency at all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1953 |
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