Primordial Soup Theory

This research paper gives a brief overview of the most popular hypotheses on the origin of life. This includes Primordial Soup, Iron-Sulfur world, Deep Sea vent, RNA world, Community clay, and Panspermia. This document is stating information I researched about these hypotheses and I am giving some basic background information to the reader. If you don’t know much about these theories on how life began, then this is a good paper to read so you can get a general understanding of the hypotheses stated above. The research done below is meant to show a basic synopsis of the information I found by researching the information on the various theories of the origin of life. If you would like to learn more about any of these hypotheses, you can refer

The primordial soup theory was proposed in 1924.They believed that with the gasses in the atmosphere and the compounds in the ocean, along with strikes of lightning, this could suddenly form amino acids to form the first life forms. Later, in 1953, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey tested the hypothesis with an experiment known as the Miller-Urey experiment, which included gases from a reducing atmosphere, a simulation of an ocean, and lightning strikes to cause the organic compounds to form. This experiment did show that the compounds formed in this environment. Scientists later found flaws with the experiment, such as they simulated constant strikes of lightning, but lightning strikes are not constant on Earth even though they are very frequent. Joan Oro also showed that adenine was formed by heating water-based ammonia and cyanide

There is not a specific year that Anaxagoras first used the name of this theory. This theory states that life forms may have come to Earth from another planet, via asteroids or meteoroids. Particles may have fallen down to Earth and “seeded” early life. These may have come from Mars and could have been Martian life, making us all related to Martians. The life may have come from another galaxy. There are 3 main types of the panspermia theory: 1. Interstellar, which says rocks from a planet could carry biological matter to a different solar system; 2. Interplanetary, can carry life forms from one planet to another; and 3. Directed, spreading living matter purposefully by humans. Anaxagoras stated this theory as everything existed in the beginning, it might have been small parts of each organism, but they were there as “seeds” of life in forms that didn’t look like what they do now. They later evolved into what we know