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Biology Assignment
The Origin of Life: Primordial Soup Theory
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin

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2. Write your name and group.

Name: José Pablo Gordillo T


Group: 502
Instructions:

1. The next reading is about the theory of the origin of life of Alexander Ivanovich Oparin.
2. The events are described in order. Read them carefully.
3. Select one of the images that best describe each event and paste it into the box on the
right.

Primordial Soup Theory Images


Primitive atmosphere

4,500,000,000 years ago, the Earth had an irregular


surface and the temperature was elevated due to
the energy caused by the great explosion of the Big
Bang.

It grew larger due to countless collisions between


dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets.

Early Conditions

Early Earth’s atmosphere had no oxygen. Gases like


methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia were
present. There were other elements and compounds
essentials to life as water, nitrogen, phosphate, and
hydrogen.

There was no ozone layer, so ultraviolet and infrared


radiation reached freely to the Earth's surface
generating a large amount of energy.
Formation of biomolecules

Under these conditions, chemical compounds


reacted from sources like lightning, ultraviolet
radiation and volcanic activity, and combined to
form the first organic molecules such as
carbohydrates, lipids and proteins.

During the Precambrian era, the first primitive


oceans were formed where these organic molecules
were included.

Primordial Soup

Over time, more complex molecules were formed,


which Oparin called Coacervates. They were
aggregates of organic molecules like droplets
floating in the primitive sea.

Due to the conditions of the sea, hot and with


nutrients, it was called the Primordial Soup or
Oparin’s Soup.

Coacervates

These coacervates were able to absorb and


assimilate organic compounds from the
environment (heterotrophic nutrition) and divided
with the mechanical movements of the waves
(asexual reproduction).

There was overpopulation of coacervates and soon


they finished all the food that was left over in the
sea.

Chemical evolution

One day, one coacervate suffered a mutation


changing its nutrition from heterotrophic to
autotrophic and began to reproduce. The oceans
turned green.

With this change, they changed to photosynthetic


individuals and released oxygen into the seas that
escaped to the atmosphere.

Oxidative atmosphere

The atmosphere transformed to an oxidizing one,


with great amounts of oxygen. The ozone layer was
formed and prevented the entry of UV rays.

These changes contributed to the process of


formation of life on Earth and its evolution.

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