单词 | plasmogeny |
释义 | plasmogenyn. Biology. rare. The hypothetical process by which simple living cells or organisms are supposed to have developed from organic substances. Cf. autogony n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > spontaneous spontaneous generation1656 equivocal generation1658 heterogeny1863 autogeny1867 abiogenesis1870 autogony1870 archebiosis1872 abiogeny1874 archigony1876 plasmogeny1876 plasmogony1904 biopoesis1953 1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. xiii. 339 We call spontaneous generation plasmogeny when the organism arises in an organic formative fluid, that is, in a fluid which contains those requisite fundamental substances dissolved in the form of complicated and fluid combinations of carbon. 1907 Science 2 Aug. 156/1 A. L. Herrera:..‘Plasmogeny, a New Experimental Science’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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