@Lightlyseared and @King_Pariah There is still debate about this. Rupert Sheldrake, for example, argues that genetics alone cannot account for the behaviour of lifeforms, and that all life is connected through the morphic field, which contains information necessary for living entities to function. We are learning through the neo-Lamarckian study of epigenetics that things are much more complex than simple Mendelian genetics would suggest. Since no one, anywhere, has been able to assemble a functional lifeform from raw, unliving materials, there is still a good deal of uncertainty about the nature of life.