different between symbiosis vs symbiogenesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (sumbí?sis, “living together”); synchronically, syn- +? -biosis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?mba??o?s?s/, /s?mbi?o?s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

symbiosis (plural symbioses)

1. A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.
   1. (ecology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species that normally benefits both members. An interspecies cooperation.
2. (biology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species, regardless of benefit to the members.
3. (possibly obsolete) The state of people living together in a community.

Derived terms

• Symbionese
• symbiotic
• symbiology

Related terms

• semiosis
• symbiont
• symbiote

Translations

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

See also

• endosymbiosis
• symbiosis