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Primordial Soup Hypothesis

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Many people have questioned where life originated. There have been many hypothesizes made over many years as to how we evolved into what we are today. Some of the most realistic hypothesizes to me are the RNA world hypothesis, which says that the first forms of life had all genetic information in ribosomes, and the primordial soup hypothesis, that says life originated in the warm ocean. Other hypothesizes don’t seem to make that much sense. For example the community clay hypothesis, which states that the crystals create heredity. Although we don’t know how life came to be for sure, scientists definitely wont stop at coming up with a reasonable explanation as to how life evolved into what it is today. A common question from scientists is where did life come from? With the Primordial Soup Hypothesis, scientists Alexander Oparin and J.B.S Haldane came up with a theory. In 1924, Oparin and Haldane studied where the first form of life came from. They concluded the first form of life came from a warm ocean or pond due the chemicals from the atmosphere and a form of energy that created amino acids. When the amino acids bond together they form proteins. The “organic soup” came from lightning and rain that energized it. When these organisms were created, they were said to be simple heterotrophs that consumed other organisms for energy …show more content…

In this environment rich with iron-sulfur minerals, this serves prebiotic chemistry in multiple ways. One, it serves as an energy and electron source, and allows complex surface reaction systems. Scientists Huber and Wachtershauser tested the theory that high pressures facilitate polymerization reactions, aren’t good under the diluted primordial soup conditions, by them forming dipeptides from amino acids with minerals at normal

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