School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1.
J Microbiol Methods. 2010 Dec;83(3):341-4. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2010.05.012. Epub 2010 Jun 1.
A hypothesis is proposed that the first living microbial cell(s) on Earth assembled about 3.6-4 billion years ago when an environmental microscopic entropy (balance between order and disorder; suitable amount of randomness) was within a range suitable for the origin of microbial cell(s) in a hydrogel environment. An earlier origin of microbial life was not possible as the elements, molecules and entropy conditions necessary for life were not available at the microscopic level. Methodology limitations to study postulated past origin of microbial life events and to mimic these events in the laboratory, are still obstacles to understanding the origin of life.
提出一种假说，认为地球上最早的生命微生物细胞大约在 36 亿到 40 亿年前组装而成，当时的环境微观熵（有序和无序之间的平衡；适量的随机性）处于适合微生物细胞在水凝胶环境中起源的范围内。生命的早期起源是不可能的，因为生命所需的元素、分子和熵条件在微观层面上是不可用的。研究假定的微生物生命起源事件的方法学限制以及在实验室中模拟这些事件仍然是理解生命起源的障碍。
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