| 单词 |
eobiont |
| 释义 |
eobiont|iːəʊˈbaɪɒnt| [f. eo- + Gr. βιουντ- pr. pple. stem of βιοῦν to live, f. βίος life.] A hypothetical chemical structure, supposed to arise during biopoesis, that has certain characteristics of living matter but is not alive in the fullest sense.
1953N. W. Pirie in Discovery Aug. 242/2 In early systems, which may be called eobionts, functions may have been performed by other materials, inefficiently no doubt but well enough to get things started. [Note] Eobiont = ‘dawn organism’. 1967J. D. Bernal Orig. Life iii. 27 He [sc. Oparin] showed that such colloidal bodies could carry on complex chemical reactions and could gradually form what were afterwards referred to as eobionts or pre-vital masses which could carry on a chemical evolution of their own. |
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