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symbiogenesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

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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."

symbiogeneses (plural)

endosymbiogenesis symbiogenetic symbiogenic

biogenesis endosymbiosis symbiosis

What does symbiogenesis mean?: The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.
Where does symbiogenesis come from?: 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."

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