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How did chemisty and oceans produce this?
Formation of Planetary Atmospheres:
After condensation of water vapor produced the earth's oceans, thus sweeping out the carbon dioxide and locking it up into rocks, our atmosphere was mostly nitrogen. Currently, our atmosphere is 72% nitrogen and 28% oxygen (everything else like H2 and CO2 exists only in trace amounts). So where did the oxygen come from?
So now let's make some life over the next billion years or so:
Amino Acids now loosely mixed in the oceans
Next goal is to combine monomers into Polymers (peptide chains)
How did chemisty and oceans produce this?
Need to concentrate monomers together to facilitate polymer formation. If left as a dilute mixture in the early oceans, monomers will never form long chains of molecules because the concentration is too low.
Step 2: Concentrate the Monomers:
4 billion years ago the moon was substantially closer to the earth than it is now. Large lunar tides coupled with storms could have formed transient inland lakes. When that water is evaporated over a period of weeks/months then a rich mixture of monomers would settle into the clays that formed the lake bottom.
Clays --> Silicate Surfaces --> acts as a catalyst
Peptide chains of around 100 amino acids can be found today
Does the reaction on the silicate surfaces favor L amino acids?
Step 3: BIG, Unknown Next Step --> need to organize a system capable of self-replication (e.g. DNA)
EVOLTUIONARY ADVANTAGE: Polymers that could reproduce themselves will survive