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HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
- Water is essential for the survival of all known forms of life
- Water is also needed to initiate life
Primordial Soup Theory
– Theory on the origins of life that believes that “multimers”, chains of amino acids smaller than polymers, were the catalysts of life.
– These multimers formed through natural chemistry with monomer amino acids in a primordial lake or pond (most likely hot acidic water with some sulphur).
– The abundance of iron in Earth’s early stages which combined with water and ultraviolet light from the sun, would release hydrogen from the water, making it possible for amino acids to form.
– These amino acids chains formed the first RNA which acted as both the catalyst and genes, making the organisms to duplicate on their own.*For a short clip on the primordial soup click here.