Thursday, 3 February 2022

The very first life, according to evolution

 

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Joel Kontinen

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have shown that according to evolution, the shape the the very first cells take, as life began to evolve, is important.

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, in collaboration with East China Normal University, have shown that E. coli bacteria grown in a primordial-like environment become spherical.

According to evolution, “Oleic acid is the most common fatty acid in nature and can be metabolized by E. coli. The team therefore mimicked primordial conditions by growing six different lineages of cells in an environment where the only available nutrient was oleic-acid vesicles (OAVs), rather than the more usual glucose sugar”.

So they say that the first the earliest primitive cells live was spherical. However, as God caused life to appear, He probably did the whole think  at once,

Source:

 University of Tsukuba.2022.  "New spheres of knowledge on the origin of life. Science Daily. 12 January.