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abiogenesis

Noun

abiogenesis

  1. (Biology): The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis
    Quotations
    • I shall call the ... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis - Huxley, 1870

Antonyms:

  • [[transformism]]

11 letters in word "abiogenesis": A B E E G I I N O S S.

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