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单词 biopoesis
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biopoesisn.

Brit. /ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)pəʊˈiːsɪs/, U.S. /baɪoʊpoʊˈisᵻs/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: bio- comb. form, Greek ποίησις.
Etymology: < bio- comb. form + ancient Greek ποίησις making (see poesis n.).Apparently coined by N. W. Pirie (see quot. 1953 at main sense).
= abiogenesis n. Cf. biogenesis n. 1a.
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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.
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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).
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