Meanings
- Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
The endosymbiotic theory, as it came to be known, rewrote the history of life.
2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 911 more example
The person perhaps most responsible for resurrecting and then establishing the serial endosymbiotic theory, thus creating the new field of endocytobiology, is Lynn Margulis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the evolutionary biology of the microbial world and a cofounder with Max Taylor of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology.
1989 Fall, Arthur Fisher, “The Wheels Within Wheels in the Superkingdom Eucaryotae”, in Mosaic, volume 20, number 3, page 5 - That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥dóm
- Proto-Hellenic*éndon
- Ancient Greekἔνδον (éndon)
- Englishendo-
- Englishsymbiotic
- Englishendosymbiotic
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