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10.22034/ascij.2023.1978217.1458

Article Type: Original Research

A Review on Biological Analysis of of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory on the Origin of Cellular Life on Earth

Subject Areas : Journal of Animal Biology

Naeimeh Shibaei 1

1 - Department of Agriculture, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran

Received: 2022-09-14 Accepted : 2023-01-08 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: Origin of Life, Darwin's Evolution, Cell Biogenesis, Cell Theory, Cell Biology,

Abstract :

The origin of cellular life is still unknown. According to Darwin's evolutionary theory that all species of life, due to the process of natural selection, originated from a common ancestor, some have assumed the origin of life to be a random process during which life evolved from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds to has come into existence. The prevailing hypothesis is that the transition from non-living organisms to living organisms was not a single event, but a complex evolutionary process that began after the formation of the Earth after the Big Bang, as a result of the transformation of inorganic molecules into organic molecules. And then with the spontaneous creation of organic molecules with the ability of self-replication, assembly, autocatalysis and then the emergence of cell membrane, nature has been able to choose the best compounds that have the ability to expand on earth and become prokaryotic cells and in the later stages as The ancestors of eukaryotic cells expanded to live on earth. In this research, the different dimensions of the probability of the random emergence of the primary cell are explained and the challenges related to them are examined from different aspects of the sciences of cell biology and genetics.

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