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How building blocks of life formed decoded
Scientists have uncovered a physical mechanism that may explain how the building blocks necessary for the origin of life on Earth formed.
Washington: Scientists have uncovered a physical mechanism that may explain how the building blocks necessary for the origin of life on Earth formed.
Researchers have long known that the building blocks of life - amino acids, nucleobases and sugars - were present in the early ocean, but they were very low in concentration.
In order for life to emerge, these building blocks needed to be combined and enriched into long-chain macromolecules. Identifying the process and mechanism driving this synthesis has been one of the largest questions concerning the origin of life.
Now, researchers at Texas A&M University in the US have found a mechanism that may have played a major role in combining these dilute chemical building blocks into the long-chain macromolecules necessary for life.
"In the early ocean, those building blocks were present in the environment," said Victor Ugaz, professor at Texas A&M University.
