Günter Wächtershäuser proposed that this process occurred via catalyzation by iron.
Günter Wächtershäuser proposed that this process occurred via catalyzation by iron. One step of this process probably occurred during the Eoarchean Era and may have been the development of protobionts, and selfreplicating, catalytic ribozymes may have started this process. Alexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane theorized that this process occurred after ultraviolet radiation and lightning reduced simple molecules into organic compounds. That hypothesis of this process was demonstrated in the abiotic synthesis of amino acids shown by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey. For 10 points, name this process that may have occurred in the "primordial soup" of early Earth.
Günter Wächtershäuser proposed that this process occurred via catalyzation by iron.
abiogenesis [or origin of life on Earth; accept obvious equivalents like the "appearance of first living cells"; prompt on "life" or equivalents]