Which of the following is generally accepted as the origin of living organisms?

a. Life was seeded on Earth from some distant place by meteorites and comets crashing into Earth.
b. Spontaneous generation
c. Life originated from an oxygen-rich atmosphere on Earth.
d. Life can originate from nonliving matter.
e. Prebiotic chemical evolution gave rise to progressively more complex molecules and eventually to living organisms


Ans: e. Prebiotic chemical evolution gave rise to progressively more complex molecules and eventually to living organisms

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