What is the first organism that evolution started with? than answer what before that? so are you saying that an organism came from a rock with earth soup in it?
2007-10-22 21:08:41 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tiny minds can struggle with the concept of primordial soup,they usually give up and invent themselves an imaginary friend that makes it easier for them to cope with life's little brainteasers.
2007-10-22 21:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In essence that is the theory, yes. Life began from basic chemicals that over time became simple organic compounds; some of those substances naturally form membranes, leading to the first single-celled organisms, and on from there. That is what the current best approximation states, and it will stand until something better comes along, that's how science works. Evolution is a scientific theory, not a belief. A basic biology text will lay it out better than any answers you get here, BTW.
2007-10-22 21:15:24 · answer #2 · answered by AmigaJoe 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The first organism was some sort of single celled organism. different particles, atoms came together, and eventually something came to be. Single celled organisms self replicate, so soon one became two became 4 became 8, on and on and on. And as there was a struggle for food, things had a need to change for survival. Soon the thing with one type of mutation was out surviving other things, and so on and so on.
Just like with religion, some things have to be taken on "faith". We obviously cannot go back billions of years ago to watch it happen.
2007-10-22 21:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by Ayana 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When living organisms came about, the world was very very different to the way it is now. I don't know all the details, but there was very high ammonia levels in the atmosphere, and the potential for a large amount of chemical reactions and the merging of substances to create single cell organisms.
2007-10-22 21:14:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no truly "standard" model for the origin of life, but most currently accepted scientific models build in one way or another on the following discoveries, which are listed roughly in order of postulated emergence:
1.Plausible pre-biotic conditions result in the creation of the basic small molecules of life. This was demonstrated in the Miller-Urey experiment, and in the work of Sidney Fox.
2.Phospholipids spontaneously form lipid bilayers, the basic structure of a cell membrane.
3.Procedures for producing random RNA molecules can produce ribozymes, which are able to produce more of themselves under very specific conditions.
There are many different hypotheses regarding the path that might have been taken from simple organic molecules to protocells and metabolism. Many models fall into the "genes-first" category or the "metabolism-first" category, but a recent trend is the emergence of hybrid models that do not fit into either of these categories
So you see there are theories but it depends which you want to believe ( that`s avalaible in everything )
RNA did evolve in DNA , you know
2007-10-22 21:20:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Earth soup? If by that you mean the chemical-rich oceans of several million years ago, then yes. The most likely scenario is that, by pure chance, molecules aggregated in such a way as to form the precursor of what we know today as DNA.
It wasn't an "organism" as such, it was simply a chain of molecules. Then evolution took over and what you see today is the result.
2007-10-22 21:16:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you would actually study up instead of badgering the naturalists on this forum, you would read that the first organism was likely a virus, and it formed from a single strand of RNA that formed from several amino acids that had been drawn together in a freak chemical reaction. The amino acids had been individually formed by other freak chemical reactions that had combined molecules into simple proteins that eventually reacted with each other to form these amino acids.
Microbiologists have actually made great headway in recreating this hypothesis in laboratories over the last year.
AND I DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION, YOU DOLT!
2007-10-22 21:20:09 · answer #7 · answered by SDW 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A single cell organism or protoplasm. 1 hydrogen atom, 2 nitrogen, 16 carbon.
2007-10-22 21:14:50 · answer #8 · answered by Judo Chop 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
first organisms were single celled organisms. Who knows where they came from?
I believe evolutions was kick started by some supernatural force.
But there's no denying evolution is fact
2007-10-22 21:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by Achiote 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Your not making much sense I'm afraid.... A rock with earth soup in it? You really have lost me there.
2007-10-22 21:19:22 · answer #10 · answered by Birdy is my real name 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋