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Left: a 1936 depiction, by American plant physiologist Frank Thone, of a plant as a light powered "CHNOPS Plus" system; a chemical upgrade to older late 18th century, albeit now-defunct (2009), term "biological" system (right). [1] |
“Chemistry does not know the word life”.
“Let us abandon the word ‘alive’.”
See main: life terminology upgradesThe prefix “bio-”, in short, is a defunct scientific prefix. Upgrade alternatives include: “chnops-” (c.1936), "powered CHNOPS matter" (Henry Swan, 1974), “animate matter” (Alfred Ubbelohde, 1954), as in bio-physicist (defunct) → chnops-physicist (modern), or bio-chemistry (defunct) → chnops-physics, or life thermodynamics (defunct) or biothermodynamics (defunct) → animate thermodynamics (modern).