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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An aggregation of organic molecules, surrounded by a membrane, that abiotically coalesces into resemblances of living matter; thought to be the precursors of prokaryotic cells

Synonyms

All synonyms

probiont

Etymology

From proto- + -biont.

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