symbiogenesis

English

Etymology

From sym- +‎ bio- +‎ -genesis. Coined in German by the Russian lichenologist Konstantin Mereschkowski, in a 1910 paper entitled "Theorie der zwei Plasmaarten als Grundlage der Symbiogenesis, einer neuen Lehre von der Entstehung der Organismen."

Noun

symbiogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural symbiogeneses)

1. (biology) The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.

Derived terms

• symbiogenetic / symbiogenic

Related terms

• biogenesis

Translations

merging of organisms to form a new organism

• Esperanto: simbiogenezo
• German: Symbiogenese (de) f
• Japanese: シンビオジェネシス
• Khmer: សហជីវជៈ (sak hak ji vak jeak), សហជីវៈកំណើត (sak hak ji vak kom nert)
• Norwegian: symbiogenese

See also

• endosymbiosis
• symbiosis