| 单词 | primordial soup |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprimordial soup primordial soup n. Biology a solution, rich in organic compounds, which is thought (by many scientists) to have been the environment in which complex biological molecules and hence life originated (see soup n. 1b); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > primordial soup Urschleim1921 primordial soup1962 prebiotic soup1966 1962 D. J. Merrell Evol. & Genetics 64 It has also been proposed that the long polypeptide chains were first formed by polymerization in, for example, a dried-up pool in the absence of water rather than in the primordial ‘soup’. 1998 J. Uglow in J. Treglown & B. Bennett Grub St. & Ivory Tower i. 3 Fielding began writing for journals at the end of the 1730s. His experimental practice..may provide a glimpse, at least, of the primordial soup from which modern literary journalism emerged. 2002 Science 15 Mar. 2006 Simple chemicals in a cozy puddle of primordial soup first assembled themselves into the precursors of the earliest forms of life some 4 billion years ago. < as lemmas |
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