(2136) Can we make life from chemical matter?
Laurence Emery
Queen Mary

Abstract


I wanted to find out if we can make life from simple chemical matter. I hypothesized that we should be able to create life even without technology since simple life forms exist that are made of the same chemicals as complicated life forms. I read about it and found some important experiments like the Miller experiment. This is evidence that it is possible but it is way more complicated than it seems and we are farther away from proving it than I thought.

First I carefully put half a cup of water into a measuring cup and poured it into a clear plastic cup. I had five cups and had done the same method by pouring half a cup of water into each. Then I took a blue marker and marked exactly where the water level was. I took the materials and cut them each into pieces and weighed them to make sure they were each five grams. Then I labelled each cup with the name of the material and one by one dipped each material into the water and counted to ten. Once the ten seconds were over I took out the water and put them in a bowl. Then I took a red marker and marked down exactly where the liquid level was now. I repeated the procedure with every material, and ran the test three times on each material to see if there was a consistency in my results.