n. A method of reproduction in which the parents and offspring are alike.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In biology, the ordinary course of generation, in which the offspring is like the parent and runs through the same cycle of development. It contrasts with certain special modes of generation, as heterogenesis, xenogenesis, parthenogenesis, etc.
Word Usage
"Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis."