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Bioplasm.

ganisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

Pertaining to biogenesis.

A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Same as Abiogenesis.

To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

anisms can be produced only by the evolution or development of living germs or seeds. See Biogenesis, and Abiogenesis. As applied to the origin of disease, the theory claims that the zymotic diseases are due to the rapid development and multiplication of various bacteria, the germs or spores of which are either contain…

theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis.

A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.

The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of Ant: spontaneous generation.

be, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.