panspermia in English

noun
1
the theory that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment.
A theory known as panspermia suggests that organic precursors to life arrived to Earth with meteors.

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1. Pseudo-panspermia (sometimes called soft panspermia, molecular panspermia or quasi-panspermia) proposes that the organic molecules used for life originated in space and were incorporated in the solar nebula, from which the planets condensed and were further —and continuously— distributed to planetary surfaces where life then emerged (abiogenesis).

2. Anaxagoras' theory of panspermia is an example of the long-ago situation in which science and religion first collided

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5. Life may be generated directly on a planet or satellite endogenously or be transferred to it from another body, a hypothetical process known as panspermia.

6. Proponents of Biogenesis assumed that the embryos of living organisms were carried to the earth from other, older celestial bodies—the theory of panspermia

7. 27 For panspermia to occur, however, microorganisms need to survive not only ejection from the first planet and atmospheric entry to the second but the interplanetary voyage itself.

8. If the Martian DNA sequences did not follow the same genetic code used by living cells on Earth to make proteins, researchers would conclude that Mars-Earth panspermia is doubtful.