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Endosymbiosis vs Abiogenesis - What's the difference?

endosymbiosis | abiogenesis |

As nouns the difference between endosymbiosis and abiogenesis

is that endosymbiosis is (ecology) a condition of living within the body or cells of another organism while abiogenesis is abiogenesis.

endosymbiosis

English

Noun

(endosymbioses) (wikipedia endosymbiosis)
  • (ecology) A condition of living within the body or cells of another organism.

    • Related terms

    * endosymbiont * endosymbiotic * endosymbiotic theory * symbiosis * symbiotic

    abiogenesis

    English

    Noun

    (abiogeneses)
  • (biology) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Thomas Huxley, title=Imperial Granum, The Great Medicinal Food
    • , passage=I shall call the ... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis }}

    Synonyms

    * abiogeny * biopoiesis

    Antonyms

    * transformism * biogenesis

    See also

    * allopoiesis * autopoiesis * biopoesis

    References