THE ORIGIN OF

LIFE

© 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS

BIOLOGY
• It is the study of life.
• Branch of science
• A way of understanding nature.
• A human endeavor
• An attempt to understand, explain, integrate and describe
the world of living things.

© 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS

QUESTION

Where do you think life

orginated?

© 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS

Concept of Life
POSSIBILITIES:
1.Extraterrestrial Origin
2.Divine Creation
3.Origin from non-living matter
 Divine Creation
Formation of Life on Earth may have
been taken place due to supernatural
or divine forces.
 Divine Creation
• Christian Concept
• Hindu Concept
• Judaism Concept
• Islamic Concept
EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN
/PANSPERMIA
Panspermia – Seeds everywhere

Life formation did not take place on

Earth. It took place somewhere else
in the space of any other planet and
carried into the Earth.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN
/PANSPERMIA
Litho panspermia – spreading of biological
material from one solar system to
another.

Ballistic panspermia - spreading of

biological material from one planet to
another within the solar system.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN
/PANSPERMIA
Directed panspermia – intentional
spreading of biological material by an
advanced extraterrestrial civilization.
Stanley Miller and Harold Urey
• Performed and experiment and was able to replicate
the early Earth condition
Important complex molecules had
formed
• Amino Acids
• Nucleotides
• Carbohydrates
• Lipids