abiogenesis

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abiogenesis Development of living organisms from non-living matter; as in the supposed origin of life on Earth, or in the concept of spontaneous generation, which was once held to account for the origin of life but which modern understanding of evolutionary processes (see EVOLUTION) has rendered outdated.

abiogenesis

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abiogenesis The development of living organisms from non-living matter, as in the supposed origin of life on Earth, or in the concept of spontaneous generation which was once held to account for the origin of life but which modern understanding of evolutionary processes (see evolution) has made outdated.

abiogenesis

views updated May 17 2018

a·bi·o·gen·e·sis / ˌābī-ōˈjenəsis/ • n. technical term for spontaneous generation.

abiogenesis

views updated May 29 2018

abiogenesis The development of living organisms from non-living matter, as in the supposed origin of life on Earth, or in the concept of spontaneous generation which was once held to account for the origin of life but which modern understanding of evolutionary processes has rendered outdated.

abiogenesis

views updated Jun 27 2018

abiogenesis The development of living organisms from non-living matter, as in the origin of life on Earth, or in the concept of spontaneous generation which was once held to account for the origin of life but which modern understanding of evolutionary processes has rendered outdated.

abiogenesis

views updated May 23 2018

abiogenesis a technical term for spontaneous generation, which was introduced by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Liverpool in September 1870.

abiogenesis

views updated Jun 11 2018

abiogenesis The origin of living from nonliving matter, as by biopoiesis. See also spontaneous generation.