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  2. History of research into the origin of life - Wikipedia

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    The underlying hypothesis held by Oparin, Haldane, Bernal, Miller and Urey, for instance, was that multiple conditions on the primeval Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized the same set of complex organic compounds from such simple precursors. Bernal coined the term biopoiesis in 1949 to refer to the origin of life. [33]

  3. Abiogenesis - Wikipedia

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    A mesophilic start in surface bodies of waters hypothesis has evolved from Darwin's concept of a 'warm little pond' and the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis. Freshwater bodies under temperate climates can accumulate prebiotic materials while providing suitable environmental conditions conducive to simple life forms.

  4. Experimental evolution - Wikipedia

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    The organism used is decided by the experimenter, based on the hypothesis to be tested. Many generations are required for adaptive mutation to occur, and experimental evolution via mutation is carried out in viruses or unicellular organisms with rapid generation times, such as bacteria and asexual clonal yeast.

  5. Statistical hypothesis test - Wikipedia

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    Statistical hypothesis: A statement about the parameters describing a population (not a sample). Test statistic: A value calculated from a sample without any unknown parameters, often to summarize the sample for comparison purposes. Simple hypothesis: Any hypothesis which specifies the population distribution completely.

  6. Primordial soup - Wikipedia

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    Primordial soup, also known as prebiotic soup, is the hypothetical set of conditions present on the Earth around 3.7 to 4.0 billion years ago. It is an aspect of the heterotrophic theory (also known as the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis) concerning the origin of life, first proposed by Alexander Oparin in 1924, and J. B. S. Haldane in 1929.

  7. Spontaneous generation - Wikipedia

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    Spontaneous generation is a superseded scientific theory that held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were commonplace and regular. It was hypothesized that certain forms, such as fleas , could arise from inanimate matter such as dust, or that maggots could arise from dead flesh.

  8. Literature-based discovery - Wikipedia

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    An example diagram of Swanson linking, usinc the ABC paradigm. Literature-based discovery (LBD), also called literature-related discovery (LRD) is a form of knowledge extraction and automated hypothesis generation that uses papers and other academic publications (the "literature") to find new relationships between existing knowledge (the "discovery").

  9. Particulate inheritance - Wikipedia

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    Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics William Bateson Ronald Fisher. Particulate inheritance is a pattern of inheritance discovered by Mendelian genetics theorists, such as William Bateson, Ronald Fisher or Gregor Mendel himself, showing that phenotypic traits can be passed from generation to generation through "discrete particles" known as genes, which can keep their ability to be expressed ...