Science word of the day: biogenesis
Pronunciation: ay-bye-oh-jen’-ih-sis
What does it mean: The emergence of life from nonliving matter through chemical processes is abiogenesis. Scientists still don’t know exactly how biogenesis occurred on Earth. range of principles From lightning strikes, which could transform water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen into amino acids and sugars – the building blocks of life – to chemical reactions in deep-sea vents. Abiogenesis is not the same as spontaneous generation, in which living organisms such as maggots were believed to form directly from decaying matter. It was a compelling idea to those who saw meat rotting, but Louis Pasteur, the inventor of pasteurization, proved it wrong by demonstrating it in the 1860s. Germs can only evolve from pre-existing microbes.
How to use it in a sentence: All life on Earth could be the result of which event? biogenesis more than this 3.7 billion years ago.
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