单词 | biogenesis |
释义 | biogenesisn. Biology. 1. a. The origination of living organisms from other living organisms, rather than from inanimate matter. Opposed to abiogenesis n. 1. Now rare. law of biogenesis: see note at sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of origin or development of life epigenesis1653 intelligent design1816 vitalism1822 ovarism1857 panspermy1857 creationism1860 monadism1860 nomogeny1868 thaumatogeny1868 biogenesis1870 panspermism1870 biogeny1871 polygenesis1871 panspermatism1874 monism1880 ovism1892 neo-vitalism1895 creation science1970 1870 T. H. Huxley in Nature 15 Sept. 401 The hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter..I shall call the hypothesis of Biogenesis. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe vii. §243 To receive the law of Biogenesis as expressing the present order of the world. 1941 Science 14 Feb. 150/2 These are examples of biogenesis, and opposed to this theory to-day as in Pasteur's day is heterogenesis or spontaneous generation. 2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. 14 When something is a scientific law, it is something that has been shown to be true all of the time: for example, the law of gravity; and in this case, the law of biogenesis. b. The development of life or living organisms from complex inorganic or inanimate substances. Also: the (hypothetical) artificial production of life from such substances. Cf. abiogenesis n. 2. ΚΠ 1955 Science 6 May 664/2 ‘Biogenesis’, a symposium on the origin of life. 1965 J. B. S. Haldane in S. W. Fox Orig. Prebiological Syst. 11 Some particular group may have been the limiting factor in biogenesis. Perhaps amino acids..were present in adequate amounts, but high-energy phosphates were only rarely so. 1973 Sunday Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 18 Feb. d1/4 Biogenesis, that rather frightening prospect that some day the laboratory might..give scientists the power to create new forms of life. 2002 J. Cohen & I. Stewart Evolving Alien iv. 80 There are at least thirty persuasive scenarios in the biogenesis literature that probably would, given time, develop lifeforms from their recursive chemistries. 2. The history of the origin and evolution of living organisms; spec. = recapitulation n.1 1c. Cf. biogeny n. 2. Now chiefly historical.In this sense, the phrase law of biogenesis (= biogenetic law n. at biogenetic adj. 2) refers to a theory now largely discredited (see note at recapitulation n.1 1c). By contrast, in sense 1a, the law of biogenesis is a generally accepted principle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > processes or types of evolution transmutation1626 substitution1822 subspeciation1826 metamorphosis1835 phytogenesis1847 phytogeny1850 anamorphosis1852 correlation1859 advergence1861 convergence1861 phylogeny1869 ontogeny1872 recapitulation1874 ontogenesis1875 phylogenesis1875 biogenesis1876 abiogenesis1884 anagenesis1889 tachygenesis1893 orthogenesis1895 adaptive radiation1898 speciation1906 microevolution1911 subspeciation1921 raciation1934 orthogenetics1937 encephalization1938 proterogenesis1938 allomorphosis1941 cladogenesis1953 Wallace effect1966 metachromism1968 punctuation1976 speciational evolution1988 tachygen- 1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. xviii. 134 The most simple and most ancient primary forms of the animal kingdom, whose former existence we have proved by means of the fundamental law of biogenesis. 1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 324 It is evident then that Tomitherium and Nasua show some alliances in structure which look to a common origin or biogenesis. 1917 Sci. Monthly Mar. 269 What is known as the ‘fundamental law of biogenesis’, whereby each individual recapitulates the successive stages of development through which its ancestors have passed, must be as true of the brain as of other structures. 1957 Bot. Rev. 23 26 The law of biogenesis holds good for the plant, as well as for the animal, but only in a general way. 2008 D. Seitler Atavistic Tendencies i. 46 From Ernst Haeckel's theory of biogenesis, of which Freud was a reader, we have received the ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ hypothesis. 3. = biosynthesis n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > formation of substances, etc. > [noun] elaboration1578 excretion1605 secrement1664 laboration1830 albuminization1843 vacuolation1858 vacuolization1882 glycogenesis1886 clumping1896 chemosynthesis1900 lysogenesis1901 melanogenesis1909 biosynthesis1918 lymphopoiesis1918 biogenesis1922 oncogenesis1932 induction1947 steroidogenesis1951 MAO1965 1922 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 50 32 The known chemical constituents of each oil and a possible scheme of their biogenesis is given below. 1959 New Scientist 27 Aug. 302/2 The mode of biogenesis of cellulose still remains one of the major unsolved problems of carbohydrate chemistry. 1974 Chem. in Brit. (Royal Soc. Chem.) 10 54/2 I applied the same ideas to the biogenesis of corydaline. 2004 Science 2 Jan. 13 In eukaryotes, Hsp70 molecular chaperones are involved in protein biogenesis. 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