So here's some inorganic life.

This is an inorganic tube.

And as an inorganic chemist, my friends and colleagues make this distinction between the organic, living world and the inorganic, dead world.

And what I'm going to try and do is plant some ideas about how we can transform inorganic, dead matter into living matter, into inorganic biology.

Great care must be taken to avoid... leaving inorganic materials inside the chamber.

Chemical composition with an organized structure of a natural inorganic origin. gt gt Narrator

So using evolution in biology, and in inorganic biology, for me is quite appealing, quite exciting.

So what we're going to try and do is come up with an inorganic Lego kit of molecules.

In my own laboratory, the way we're trying to create inorganic life is by using many different reaction formats.

And I think, if we can make inorganic biology, and we can make matter become evolvable, that will in fact define life.

And then we give it a second gene to grow an inorganic material that can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, that can be used for clean fuels.

But then, when the feathers are recovered, the arsenic, now in its highly toxic inorganic form, class one carcinogen, is fed back into the food system, and bioaccumulates in the very birds that have shed those feathers, the next generation.

If we accept the theory of evolution, then the first dawn of synthesis of life must consist in the production of forms intermediate between the inorganic and the organic world, or between the non living and living world, forms which possess only some of the rudimentary attributes of life