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单词 biogenesis
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biogenesisn.

Brit. /ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bio- comb. form, -genesis comb. form.
Etymology: < bio- comb. form + -genesis comb. form. In sense 2 after German Biogenie (see biogeny n.). Compare biogenetic adj. and biogeny n., and also abiogenesis n.In the preface to H. C. Bastian Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms (1871), pp. xi-xii, the author claims to have used the word earlier in unpublished writings in the sense ‘the origination of life’ (i.e. from inanimate matter; compare sense 1b), but since the word had been adopted by Huxley in the opposite sense (see sense 1a), he substitutes archebiosis.
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.
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1955 Science 6 May 664/2Biogenesis’, 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.
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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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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