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Definitions: Biogenesis |
BiogenesisNoun1. Production of a chemical compound by a living organism. 2. The production of living organisms from other living organisms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The origin of life. It includes studies of the potential basis for life in organic compounds but excludes studies of the development of altered forms of life through mutation and natural selection, which is evolution. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term is also used for the assertion that life can only be passed on by living things, in contrast to abiogenesis, which holds that life can arise from non-life under suitable circumstances.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biogenesis."
Synonyms: BiogenesisSynonyms: biogeny (n), biosynthesis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Production | Spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre. |
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Crosswords: Biogenesis |
| English words defined with "biogenesis": Biogenist ♦ Panspermy. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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biogenesis | 87 |
teoria de la biogenesis | 8 |
biogenesis nutraceuticals | 7 |
biogenesis fox fox mulder | 6 |
biogenesis theory | 5 |
biogenesis file x | 3 |
biogenesis es que | 3 |
biogenesis laboratory | 2 |
biogenesis cell fungal wall | 2 |
biogenesis law | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "biogenesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | biogenese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | biogenesis, biogenese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | biogénèse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Biogenese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιογένεση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | biogenesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iogenesisbay biogenia, biogênese, biogénese. (various references) биогенез. (various references) biogénesis. (various references) biogenes. (various references) біогенез. (various references) thuyết phát sinh sinh vật (biogeny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "biogenesis": abiogenesis. (additional references) | |
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"Biogenesis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abiogenesis, diogenesis, lipogenesis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-g-i-i-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: biogenies, isogenies. | |
-2 letters: ebonises, genoises. | |
-3 letters: bigness, biogens, bossing, ebonies, ebonise, eosines, genesis, genoise, gibsons, ionises, seeings, seising, signees, soignee. | |
-4 letters: begins, begone, beiges, beings, binges, bingos, biogen, bisons, bogies, egises, enosis, eosine, eosins, essoin, genies, gibson, gneiss, gnoses, gnosis, gobies, ibises, ionise, niseis, noesis, noises, ossein, seeing, segnos, seines, seisin, sieges, signee, singes. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-g-i-i-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: abiogenesis. | |
+4 letters: neighborliness, obligingnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 6F 67 65 6E 65 73 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i o g e n e s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 006F 0067 0065 006E 0065 0073 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36758173718071857585 |
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