Theories of Origin of Life

Question 1

Hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by METEOROIDS, ASTEROIDS and planetoids

Answer 1

Panspermia

Question 2

Biological life arises from INORGANIC matter through NATURAL processes

Answer 2

Biopoesis

Question 3

Theory concerning the coming into existence or origin of the universe, or about how reality came to be. (BIG BANG THEORY)

Answer 3

Cosmogeny

Question 4

Organelles originated as free-living bacteria that were taken INSIDE another cell as endosymbionts.

Answer 4

Endosymbiosis

Question 5

SUDDEN APPEREANCE of certain forms of life from non-living matter.

Answer 5

Spontaneous Generation

Question 6

Suggests that organisms arose from CLAY

Answer 6

Clay Theory

Question 7

Idea that Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, VIOLENT EVENTS, possibly worldwide in scope.

Answer 7

Consecutive Creations/Catastophism

Question 8

Slow and gradual process of CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, (process of evolution at the scale of DNA, RNA, and proteins)

Answer 8

Materialistic Theory

Question 9

Life has existed on earth, and it is thought to occur in multiple ways such as SLOWLY, steadily and gradually over time or rapidly from one long static state to another.
EVOLUTION

Answer 9

Organic Evolution

Question 10

All the different forms of life that occur today on planet earth, have been created by GOD.

Answer 10

Special Creation