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symbiogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.

Word forms

symbiogenesis symbiogeneses

Etymology

From sym- + bio- + -genesis. Coined in German by the Russian lichenologist Konstantin Mereschkowski, in a 1910 paper entitled "Theorie der zwei Plasmaarten als Grundlage der Symbiogenesis, einer neuen Lehre von der Entstehung der Organismen."

Related words

biogenesis endosymbiosis symbiosis

Derived words

endosymbiogenesis symbiogenetic symbiogenic
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