endosymbiotic
endosymbiotic adjective: of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
Adjective
endosymbiotic
- Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- 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...1989 Fall, Arthur Fisher, “The Wheels Within Wheels in the Superkingdom Eucaryotae”, in Mosaic, volume 20, number 3, page 5
- The endosymbiotic theory, as it came to be known, rewrote the history of life.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 91
- That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis.
Origin of endosymbiotic
From endo- + symbiotic.
Words formed from endosymbiotic
Questions about endosymbiotic
- What does endosymbiotic mean?
- Endosymbiotic means of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- What part of speech is endosymbiotic?
- Endosymbiotic is an adjective.
Words near endosymbiotic in the dictionary
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