Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the ordinary course of generation, in which the offspring is like the parent and runs through the same cycle of development. It contrasts with certain special modes of generation, as heterogenesis, xenogenesis, parthenogenesis, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to
heterogenesis .
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- noun biology A
method ofreproduction in which theparents andoffspring arealike .
Etymologies
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homo- + genesis
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Examples
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Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis.
The Crack of Doom Robert Cromie 1881
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Jay Lake: Baby Cabbage, also regionally referred to as The Leaf, Squallroot or Mother's Little Helper, Cruciferae Brassica homogenesis
what did we do today, brain? jlundberg 2008
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