NOUN
- a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
How To Use autogeny In A Sentence
- Haeckel distinguished _autogeny_ and _plasmogeny_, applying the former term when the formative fluid in which the first living matter was supposed to arise was inorganic and the latter when it was organic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
