Biogenesis vs Biosynthesis - What's the difference?
biogenesis | biosynthesis |
The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
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Biosynthesis.
(biochemistry) The synthesis of organic compounds within a living organism, especially the synthesis of large compounds from small ones.
As nouns the difference between biogenesis and biosynthesis
is that biogenesis is the principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms while biosynthesis is the synthesis of organic compounds within a living organism, especially the synthesis of large compounds from small ones.biogenesis
English
(wikipedia biogenesis)Noun
(-)citation, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis , a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}