Definition of genesis

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Genesis (n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination..

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Xenogenetic :: Xenogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes..
Haematogenic :: Haematogenic (a.) Relating to haematogenesis.
Autogenesis :: Autogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation.
Heterogenetic :: Heterogenetic (a.) Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations..
Strobile :: Strobile (n.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis..
Palingenesia :: Palingenesia (n.) See Palingenesis.
Pangenesis :: Pangenesis (n.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.
Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..
Genesis :: Genesis (n.) Same as Generation.
Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..
Agenesis :: Agenesis (n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization..
Homogenesis :: Homogenesis (n.) 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..
Monogenesis :: Monogenesis (n.) Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism..
Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation, so called..
Pathogenesis :: Pathogenesis (n.) Pathogeny.
Heterogeny :: Heterogeny (n.) Heterogenesis.
Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
Phylogeny :: Phylogeny (n.) The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally..
Parthenogeny :: Parthenogeny (n.) Same as Parthenogenesis.
Autogenetic :: Autogenetic (a.) Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.
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