Question

A.I. Oparin first formulated the concept of the biochemical origin of life in 1924. In which year did J.B.S. Haldane independently formulate the same concept?

Options

• 1925

• 1927

• 1929

• 1936

Answer 1

J.B.S. Haldane put forward his formulation in 1929, five years after A.I. Oparin's 1924 proposal. Both scientists independently arrived at the same fundamental idea that life arose from inorganic matter through gradual chemical change.