We know living things come from other living things. But how did the VERY FIRST living thing get here? Did it just pop out of nowhere? Can scientists make new life from scratch? If we took all the ingredients for life and put them on another planet, would life start there too after a long, long time?
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The first cell is theorized to have come from a proto-living entity. Something that was close to life, but didn’t quite meet the definition. Sort of like how a virus almost behaves like a living thing, but technically isn’t.
If you get the ingredients together in the right conditions, they can start various chemical reactions that interact in increasingly complex ways, until you end up with life.
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