Talk:Primeval soup

Removed a previous comment about the likelihood of polymers surviving due to hydrolysis. When Amino Acids combine to form peptide bonds, water is a byproduct, and the combined stability of the new bonded acids makes them more resilient to hydrolysis. See Peptide_bond for more information. Elecmahm 17:54, 19 October 2007 (UTC)


 * more resilient to what? The article talks about the hydrolysis of the peptide bond, not a hydrolysis of the individual amino acids (e.g. deamination or any other reaction with water). The relevant sentences in peptide bond are:

''A peptide bond can be broken by amide hydrolysis (the adding of water). The peptide bonds in proteins are metastable, meaning that in the presence of water they will break spontaneously, releasing about 10 kJ/mol of free energy, but this process is extremely slow.'' So, hydrolysis will occur. Northfox 23:57, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Redirect to Abiogenesis
As it stands, this article is a poorly-cited stub. Given that it's no larger than the section on this topic in Abiogenesis, I'm suggesting redirecting this article there. If and when the section grows too big for that article it can be spun back out again. HrafnTalkStalk 17:42, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. Northfox 02:24, 27 October 2007 (UTC)