Genesis of Amino Acids in the Primeval Sea: Formation of Amino Acids from Sugars and Ammonia in a Modified Sea Medium
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 87 (1) , 359-362
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a132748
Abstract
Sugars such as glycolaldehyde, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, ribose, and glucose were heated with ammonia in a modified sea medium. Amino acids such as glycine, alanine, serine, threonine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid were obtained from the reaction mixture. This provides the basis for a model of the genesis of amino acids in the primeval sea.Keywords
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