The catalyst of the process was an organic compound called Imidazole and no that’s not an antibiotic. Imidazole was probably present during Earths formative years and it helped DAP‘s activity to create RNA chains of building blocks that had been formed from DAP Phosphorylation. DAP together with Imidazole also managed to phosphorylate glycerol and fatty acids also lipids that ultimate self-created vesicles which are small phosphor like capsules or simply put, a primitive living cell.
It was observed in the research that at room temperature, DAP phosphorylated in water amino acids like glycine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid. This helped these molecules to link up again and form into a smaller version of proteins called peptides or peptide chains.
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To make a difficult story short, the origination of life or the very formation of the basic living cell is actually a combination of various individual elements that existed in nature. It was the compound DAP along with a catalyst that helped these elements combine together through a process called phosphorylation that soon became the stepping stone to further chemical processes that eventually led to the creation of life.
But when the answers to the biological significance of life are gradually being answered and scientists find a missing link to creation, it would be nice if scientists to derive an explanation of our own abilities of consciousness, the way we think act and behave. Are all these really as Carl Sagan said the result of our physiological anatomy of our brains or are we more than that? That is true food for thought and one that would definitely take a long time to find out. On the other hand, if that was true, then if scientists figure out more preserving methods to keep alive the anatomy of one’s brain, using organic means or artificial means, then would we continue to exist consciously??? It would be nice to find out, wouldn’t it??
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