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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Look up the Miller and Urey experiment that was earliest form of the Primordial Soup experiment. Their experiment was to see if the basic building blocks of life could be created from inorganic materials under conditions that mimicked Earth’s before life actually took hold.
Their experiment resulted in a number of amino acids being created, which are precursor requirements for any life.
Others have experimented with the setup but with slightly different starting chemical to see if similar amino acids would result, or new unknown ones being created (providing insight into the potential makeup of not-standard lifeforms).
The experiment was not conclusive, but it did re-enforce the idea of the Primordial Soup theory.
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