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Louis Pasteur's experiments, if you recall, proved that life can arise from only pre-existing life. Can we correct this as life evolves from pre-esistent life or otherwise we will never answer the question as to how the first forms of life arose ? Comment.

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Yes, we correct this as life evolves from pre-esistent life. The first life that appeared on earth was apparently the result of chemical evolution , i.e, the life originated from inorganic molecules which formed organic molecules, further forming complex compounds.
This finally resulted into simple cells and then simple organisms, wherein complexity development with time. However once life originated , abiogenesis could not follow , and hence, life evolved further only through biogenesis, i.e., pre-existent life gave rise to new life.
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