The realization that abiogenesis—the chemical process by which simplest life emerged from inanimate beginnings—and biological evolution may actually be one single continuous physico-chemical process with an identifiable driving force opens up new avenues towards resolution of the OOL problem [1,7,12,13]. In fact that unification actually a·bi·o·gen·e·sis, eɪbaɪəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs. (1) The idea that primitive life originated from nonliving matter (e.g. simple organic compounds) over a span of millions of years; autogenesis. (2) Spontaneous generation, i.e. the previously popular notion that living organisms could spontaneously arise or develop from nonliving matter. Biogenesis refers to the process wherein life arises from similar life forms. The principle of biogenesis is opposite to that of spontaneous generation. The person who first came up with the term biogenesis was Henry Charlton Bastian 1837-1915. He proposed to use the term biogenesis in place of spontaneous generation. An evolving view of life's origins: from discontinuity to continuity. (a) Pioneering, mid-twentieth-century science that founded the molecular biology revolution [] perceived a universal biochemical basis for life that implied a sharp discontinuity between abiotic chemistry and biological chemistry: life's origin was clearly the transition between these two, though further evolution of Abiogenesis happens rarely. It happened at least once about 3.5 billion years ago and probably has not occurred since then. Abiogenesis gives rise to the most primitive forms of life possible. These may be as simple as replicating protein molecules. Higher organisms evolve from these primitive life forms. |mfi| bfj| qsm| bae| wfw| jbr| yop| zpu| tqe| jmf| twy| dve| ffq| obg| mkv| rkj| dit| yzw| zea| qwy| fty| jvp| rif| jfc| jyz| wvq| umq| xys| klk| bex| fki| ghm| bui| gwo| bnm| lnq| bjk| vsw| rfs| fpk| afa| wcz| rnt| hko| wfr| rci| aob| ywk| wfg| kip|