abiogenesis.

The emergence of living systems from nonliving chemical material.

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Words that belong together

• early abiogenesis
• conditions for abiogenesis

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The basin offered conditions that might have favored abiogenesis.

She distinguished evidence of abiogenesis from a microbe brought by the probe.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.