abiogenesis

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌeɪbaɪəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs/|/-ˌbaɪə-/|/-ˌbiːə-/|/-ˌbiːoʊ-/|/-nɪ-/    美 /ˌeɪˌbaioʊˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

abiogeneses plural

词源

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not-”, the alpha privative) + βῐ́ος (bĭ́os, “life”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source; manner of birth; creation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production”)); equivalent to abio- + genesis. The words biogenesis and abiogenesis were both coined by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) in 1870 (see the quotation).
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