Meaning abiogenesis
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abiogenesisa spontaneous generation, when something living is created from something that is not living
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abiogenesis"spontaneous generation" (of life, without parent organisms), 1870, coined in Modern Latin by T.H. Huxley; see a- (3) + bio- + genesis.
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abiogenesisThe study of how life on Earth could have arisen from inanimate matter. It should not be confused with evolution (the study of how living things change over time), biogenesis (the process of lifeforms [..]
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abiogenesis[noun] The emergence of life forms emerging from non-living chemical systems. In contrast with spontaneous generation, abiogenesis is not a process that biologists think continues in a particular environment, such as a planet or moon, once a living system has emerged. Appears in modules:
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abiogenesis(n) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
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abiogenesis<study> The scientific study of how life originally arose on the planet, presumably from nonliving things and the presence of nonliving organic matter. (09 Oct 1997)
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(biology) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation.SOED5|page=4
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