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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Miller's and urey theory of life

If someone try to find out the defination of life he/she must look after the miller's and urey experiment . As it was explained by oparin and haldane that thr life occur inside an primordial soup or any closed environment but he just imagined he was not able to explain it properly  In 1952 miller and urey performed an great experiment in laboratory which really stunned the biologist. Miller and urey’s experiment is an chemical experiment in which they simulated the early earth condition in the laboratory and verified the alexander oparin and Haldane hypothesis . millers and urey experiment beautifully explained about how the organic compound can be synthesised from simpler inorganic precursors. This experiment considered as the classical experiment in the abiogenesis.
In miller –urey experiment a mixture of water, hydrogen ,methane and ammonia was cycled through an apparatus that delivered electrical sparks to the mixtures then after 1 week they observe that about 10 to 15 % of the carbon in the system was now in the form of racemic mixture of organic compounds, include amino acid which are generally the building blocks of protein. As our body is made up of organic compounds so this experiment provide an great interpretation of arrival of life.

This provided an direct experimental support to the oparin and Haldane theory. But till now the scientific theory is not end the scientist are still struggling in the lab to create an protocell in the laboratory.
This was the first hypothesis about how the life arises. But some scientists argued that there are the two probability of having the beginning of life.

1)terrestrial origin- as on the surface of the earth (I have explained above about primordial soup)

2) extraterrestrial origin- it means the life might have arrived from outside of our planet .some scientists also got the evidences of organic molecules in the asteroids and meteorites that is floating in space so they are imagining that other than oparin hypothesis the asteroid and meteorites might have falled down to the surface of earth during its early age . and then self replication takes place and even autocatalyst help to increase chemical reaction in their body and help them to increase the metabolism activity in their body and leads to the formation of complex organism.
But till now the terrestrial origin is highly approved theory in biology. But does it give the full explanation about life though we are not able to make a single proto cell in the lab :(

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