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Astronomy 2e, ch. 30: Life in the Universe
Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C. Wolff (OpenStax)
Textbook · College · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
About this work
The origin of life is usually taught outside biology: in chemistry, earth science and astronomy courses. Section 30.2 covers prebiotic chemistry and the early Earth, the subject of the Origin of Life pillar.
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- Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C. Wolff (OpenStax)
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- 2022
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- College
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- Openly licensed (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The text is loaded from the publisher's site and quoted with attribution.
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- Origin of Life
Contents
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- 30-1-the-cosmic-context-for-life30.1 The Cosmic Context for Lifeabout 1,531 words
- 30-2-astrobiology30.2 Astrobiologyabout 4,501 words
- 30-3-searching-for-life-beyond-earth30.3 Searching for Life beyond Earthabout 4,794 words
- 30-4-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence30.4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenceabout 5,094 words
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