• Question: How did life began?

    Asked by ray0.0 on 17 Jul 2023.
    • Photo: Bruno Silvester Lopes

      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      Big bang theory

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      Robbie Lynch answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      We aren’t exactly sure how life started. It would seem that the right mixture of chemicals, conditions (e.g. heat/water/oxygen) and chance led to the creation of a new thing that was able to make more of itself. That thing was probably really similar to DNA and it would have survived long enough to spill out into the surrounding environment. From there we can use the theory of evolution to determine how all the different types of life began to appear.

    • Photo: Sophie Shaw

      Sophie Shaw answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      There are researchers who try and work this out. There is a theory called the primordial soup, which is the idea that all things for life were together in a swamp like environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_soup

    • Photo: Hannah Scholes

      Hannah Scholes answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      I second Robbie on this one. No one is exactly sure, but it seems like the right chemicals came together under the right conditions and made something which could replicate itself, which I think is pretty cool! 🙂

    • Photo: Kip Heath

      Kip Heath answered on 20 Jul 2023:

      We don’t really know, if you can find it out then you’d go down in history!

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