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Genesis :: Genesis (n.) Same as Generation.

Regenesis :: Regenesis (n.) New birth; renewal.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

Ontogenesis :: Ontogenesis (n.) Alt. of Ontogen.

Biogenist :: Biogenist (n.) A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..

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..

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..

Phylogenetic :: Phylogenetic (a.) Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism..

Archebiosis :: Archebiosis (n.) The origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis.

Haematogenic :: Haematogenic (a.) Relating to haematogenesis.

Electrogenesis :: Electrogenesis (n.) Same as Electrogeny.

Heterogeny :: Heterogeny (n.) Heterogenesis.

Syngnathi :: Syngenesis (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Digenesis :: Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis..

Heredity :: Heredity (n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

Leucocytogenesis :: Leucocytogenesis (n.) The formation of leucocytes.

Cytogenetic :: Cytogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.

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