Module 1: The theories about the origin of life

Question 1

This theory states that a supernatural or divine being made life on earth.

Answer 1

Divine Creation Theory

Question 2

This theory assumes that life came from non-living materials.

Answer 2

Abiogenesis Theory

Question 3

This theory assumes that life came from living materials.

Answer 3

Biogenesis Theory

Question 4

He is an Italian Naturalist who proved that maggots came from flies back in 1668

Answer 4

Francesco Redi

Question 5

He is an Italian Biologist who concluded that air was the pores that induced microbes into the flask in 1768.

Answer 5

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Question 6

He was a French Microbiologist who experimented using a swan-like flask in 1859.

Answer 6

Louis Pasteur

Question 7

This theory believes that every catastrophe that destroys life, creates another one differently.

Answer 7

Catastrophism Theory

Question 8

This theory believes that life came from space specifically cosmozoa or resistant spores.

Answer 8

Cosmozoic Theory

Question 9

This theory is known to be the steady state theory which believes that life has no beginning or an end.

Answer 9

Theory of Eternity of Life