Where is life found?

Life forms live in every part of the Earth's biosphere, including soil, hot springs, inside rocks at least 19 km (12 mi) deep underground, the deepest parts of the ocean, and at least 64 km (40 mi) high in the atmosphere.
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Where all life is found?

The biosphere is made up of the parts of Earth where life exists. The biosphere extends from the deepest root systems of trees to the dark environment of ocean trenches, to lush rain forests and high mountaintops.
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Where is most life on Earth Found?

Yet 86 percent of life prefers living on land, the new research found. For species that don't like to live above the surface, there's plenty of real estate below. The scientists found that there's almost 12 times more biomass deep below ground than there is in the ocean.
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Where does the life start?

Life Begins at Fertilization with the Embryo's Conception. "Development of the embryo begins at Stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oocyte and together they form a zygote." "Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception).
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Why is life found only on the earth?

All living things on earth have adapted to our atmosphere, which means all living things need our mix of atmospheric gases. Life elsewhere would be specifically adapted to their own conditions. Water is a really important ingredient to sustain the kind of life we know on Earth.
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How did life start on Earth?

The earliest life forms we know of were microscopic organisms (microbes) that left signals of their presence in rocks about 3.7 billion years old. The signals consisted of a type of carbon molecule that is produced by living things.
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Which planet has a life?

Among the stunning variety of worlds in our solar system, only Earth is known to host life.
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When did life start?

We know that life began at least 3.5 billion years ago, because that is the age of the oldest rocks with fossil evidence of life on earth.
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At what point is a fetus considered a life?

According to them, the fetus which is 16 weeks can be regarded as human being because of ensoulment. It follows from this that one is authorized to refer to fetus which is 16 weeks or more as human being.
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How did humans get on Earth?

The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them spread from Africa into Asia and Europe after two million years ago.
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How deep is life in the ocean?

As such, Plümper extrapolated that the known temperature limit of life—around 250 degrees Fahrenheit—wouldn't come until a depth of at least six miles below the ocean floor. Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam is the deepest spot on Earth.
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How deep can you find life?

So far, the deepest specimens of life come from more than 3 miles beneath the surface. The mass of life in this deep biosphere adds up to hundreds of times more than all of the humans on Earth, the researchers calculated, and most of it is microbes.
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Which place has no life?

But it can't exist on every inch of the planet and scientists have discovered a place in Ethiopia where life can't find a way, according to a new study. In contrast with previous research, scientists conducted multiple tests and found that there is no life, not even microorganisms, in Dallol.
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Who Named the Earth?

All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and godesses. The name Earth is an English/German name which simply means the ground. It comes from the Old English words 'eor(th)e' and 'ertha'. In German it is 'erde'.
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Is there life on Earth?

In a galaxy that likely holds trillions of planets, ours is so far the only known life-bearing world.
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Can you be charged for killing an unborn child?

'Causing the loss of a foetus (death of pregnant woman)' which can be charged with a homicide offence (such as murder, manslaughter, dangerous driving occasioning death) where the foetus is lost and the pregnant woman is killed due to a third-party criminal act.
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Is a fetus a person?

Ultimately, most people adopt a hybrid account of personhood, according to which an embryo is a non-person, while a late-term fetus is a person. Embryos have no capacity for sentience (yet alone consciousness), whereas a late-term fetus has basic capacities for processing stimuli from the external world.
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Why is an embryo not a human?

An egg and a sperm are not a human. A fertilized embryo is not a human--it needs a uterus, and at least six months of gestation and development, growth and neuron formation, and cell duplication to become a human.
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Who is the first human?

The First Humans

One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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How long is life on Earth?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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Where did the first human live?

Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa. Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans.
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Can humans live in moon?

Unlike the Apollo astronauts, lunar settlers wouldn't be able to carry all their rations and resources on their rocket. It would be too heavy. Instead, they would have to make much of what they would need to survive out of the extra-terrestrial resources to hand. Unfortunately, these resources are pretty barren.
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Can we live on Mars?

Human survival on Mars would require living in artificial Mars habitats with complex life-support systems. One key aspect of this would be water processing systems. Being made mainly of water, a human being would die in a matter of days without it.
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