biogenesis vs multiplication

biogenesis and multiplication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
biogenesis	Yes	No	No	No
multiplication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, multiplication is a hypernym of biogenesis; that is, multiplication is a word with a broader meaning than biogenesis:

biogenesis: the production of living organisms from other living organisms
multiplication: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Other hypernyms of biogenesis include generation, propagation.

biogenesis (noun)	multiplication (noun)
the production of living organisms from other living organisms	an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
production of a chemical compound by a living organism	the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
	a multiplicative increase