Definition of genesis

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Genesis (n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race..

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Polygenetic :: Polygenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic.
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..
Monogenic :: Monogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to monogenesis.
Haematogenesis :: Haematogenesis (n.) The origin and development of blood.
Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..
Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.
Cytogenetic :: Cytogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.
Xenogenesis :: Xenogenesis (n.) The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.
Pseudovum :: Pseudovum (n.) An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Paedogenesis..
Panspermy :: Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
Hexahemeron :: Hexahemeron (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis..
Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle..
Henogenesis :: Henogenesis (n.) Same as Ontogeny.
Heterogenetic :: Heterogenetic (a.) Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations..
Heterogeny :: Heterogeny (n.) Heterogenesis.
Autogenesis :: Autogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation.
Parthenogenetic :: Parthenogenetic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms..
Biogenist :: Biogenist (n.) A believer in the theory of biogenesis.
Histogenesis :: Histogenesis (n.) The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.
Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..
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