Amino Acids
What shape are microspheres?
What is spherical?
In his original experiment, he created protein like molecules and named them what?
What are proteinoids?
Are we arguing against or defending this topic?
What is dending?
What did Fox do to amino acids in his experiment?
What is heated
What are microspheres?
What are small cell-like structures?
Fox heated the amino acids to their _______ ____ (fill in the blanks).
What is melting point?
Can microspheres be seen with the human eye, why or why not?
The amino acids polymerized into complex ____-like structures (fill in the blank).
What is a protein
What could microspheres grow and store?
What is energy?
When Fox heated the amino acids they formed _____ chains (fill in the blank).
What is polymeric
In what year(s) did Fox create microspheres?
1950's-1960's
When Fox heated the amino acids, what did they form?
What are microspheres
What did microspheres have that were a seen as a step towards cells?
What is a cell membrane
Is it possible for microspheres to form naturally under early-Earth-like conditions?
The experiment resulting synthetic polymers was created by heating a wet or dry mixture of amino acids to high temperatures? (answer wet or dry)
What is dry
What did Fox heat the amino acids?
What is to mimic volcanic, prebiotic environments?
What did Fox believe passive proteinoid microspheres could have evolved into?
What are metabolic cells (containing information-carrying molecules like RNA or DNA)
what are 2 examples of genetic information that proteinoids lack causing them to be incapable of accurate genetic coding and self-replication?
DNA and RNA
When heating amino acids in a laboratory what was the range of temperature in °C that was used to mimic volcanic, prebiotic environments?
140-180°C