How life arose on earth.
How life arose on earth.
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To understand the origins of life, it is necessary to disassemble it piece by piece, to reach its most basic components. In this work, many scientists try to explain how amino acids, which are the blocks of primary materials from which cells are formed, were formed. proteins and all cellular life of which we are composed.
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That soup would be endowed with energy by lightning from storms, heat from the atmosphere and other sources of energy such as hot springs, all of which ended up being mixed and activated in concentrated quantities to form the first organic molecules.
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To this mixture, to this primordial soup, the scientists applied the repeated ignition of an electric spark in order to simulate the discharge of a lightning storm. A week later, the researchers analyzed the contents of the container and discovered that 20 different amino acids had been formed. , that was one of the great moments of 20th century science, it demonstrated that a large number of complex organic molecules could be synthesized in the early Earth's atmosphere.
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For example, after several recent findings, scientists now know that the atmosphere of the early earth was not what was thought in the 1950s, it is now believed that ammonia and methane were much less abundant and instead the air of the early earth it was full of carbon dioxide and molecular nitrogen, and that's a big problem because those gases require more energy to break down and although they can also produce amino acids and other organic molecules, they do so in much lesser amounts.
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