biogenesis: meaning and definitions

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What is biogenesis?

What is biogenesis?

  • The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.
  • Generation of living organisms from other living organisms.
  • See biosynthesis.
  • The supposed recurrence of the evolutionary stages of a species during the embryonic development and differentiation of a member of that species. Also called recapitulation.

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