Identify the correct statement:
1. | As the coacervates do not have lipid outer membranes and cannot reproduce, they alone could not have been the precursors of life. |
2. | The microspheres could not be induced to constrict but had a large amount of diversity. |
3. | The earliest life was probably not driven by solar energy as is seen today. |
4. | Protobionts cannot separate a combination of molecules from the surroundings or maintain an internal environment, but are able to reproduce. |
Which one of the following experiments suggests that the simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?
1. | Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter. |
2. | Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel. |
3. | Microbes did not appear in stored meat. |
4. | Microbes appeared from unsterilized organic matter. |