homogenesis

[hoh-muh-jen-uh-sis, hom-uh-]

noun

Biology.

1. reproduction in which the offspring resemble the parents and undergo the same cycle of development.

Word History and Origins

Origin of homogenesis¹

First recorded in 1855–60; homo- + -genesis

Example Sentences

It is within common observation that parent and offspring are alike: that the new organism resembles that from which it has come into existence: in fine, biogenesis is homogenesis.

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The conception of homogenesis, however, does not imply an absolute similarity between parent and organism.

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Homogenesis means simply that such organism comes into existence directly from a parent organism of the same race, and hence of the same species, sub-species, genus and so forth.

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Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis.

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By the one method, which is that of common and ordinary occurrence, the living parent gives rise to offspring which passes through the same cycle of changes as itself—like gives rise to like; and this has been termed Homogenesis.

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