biogenesisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /bʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnəsɪs/, /baɪə-/, /baɪoʊ-/, /biːə-/, /biːoʊ-/, /-nɪ-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbaioʊˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
• ハイフネーション: bi‧o‧ge‧ne‧sis

名詞

biogenesis (usually uncountable, 複数形 biogeneses)

1. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
   • 1870 September 17, [Thomas Henry Huxley], “The President’s Address”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, number 2238, London: Printed by Edward J. Francis, Took's Court, Chancery Lane, published at the office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C., by John Francis. [...], →OCLC, page 374, columns 2–3:

     And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape; […] It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the contrary doctrine—that living matter may be produced by not living matter—the hypothesis of Abiogenesis.

   • 2013 March–April, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell [letter]”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83:

     It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

2. Biosynthesis.

反意語

• (principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms): abiogenesis

参照

Further reading

• biogenesis on Wikipedia.