Abiogenesis

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ËŒeɪˌbai.oʊˈdÊ’É›n.É™.sɪs/

Origin

a- + bio- + genesis

Full definition of abiogenesis

Noun

1. (biology) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation. Late 19^th century.

• 1870, Thomas Huxley, Imperial Granum, The Great Medicinal Food, I shall call the ... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis

Synonyms

• abiogeny

Antonyms

• transformism
• biogenesis