"THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY SCIENTIFIC QUESTION"
Do you think Ethanolamine (NH2CH2CH2OH) is nature's chosen mechanism for diffusing life in the cosmos?
The Ethanolamine molecule present in cell membrane of all living beings on Earth was also found in space. The Ethanolamine molecule (oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, phosphorus and sulfur) in organisms here on Earth are responsible for allowing genetic and metabolic processes to occur.
What is your scientific opinion about this?
SOURCE LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanolamine
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/22/e2101314118.full.pdf
https://www.inverse.com/science/ethanolamine-found-in-space-cloud
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-prebiotic-ethanolamine-molecular-cloud-center.html
https://astronomy.com/news/2021/05/first-evidence-of-cell-membrane-molecules-in-space
is this the flexible molecule from space which can be turned into the rest of the molecules
Ethanolamine (NH2CH2CH2OH) as well as other organic compounds from which living organisms are made, when they are carried by meteorites and other objects traveling in the Universe, may be important in transferring specific, primal life forms from some exoplanets to other exoplanets similar to ours planet earth. In this way, life in the universe can spread to various exoplanets on which life can develop. However, ethanolamine itself (NH2CH2CH2OH) is not crucial for the origin of life on a specific exoplanet in the universe, because as I wrote in my answer to another question about the possibility of independent origin of life on different exoplanets, in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other galaxies, organic compounds and the elements building these compounds on other exoplanets may be significantly different from what occurs on the planet Earth. Despite this diversity, alternative life forms may arise. This is evidenced by alternative life forms, which in the first stages of life development on planet Earth were created billions of years ago on the basis of silicon compounds, not carbon. Besides, for ethanolamine (NH2CH2CH2OH) to be formed, more simple organic compounds and amino acids must be formed earlier, from which more complex organic structures were formed in the Precambrian Pre-Cambrian and then the first single-celled forms of life. Meteorites can also carry those organic compounds that are simpler than ethanolamine (NH2CH2CH2OH) in space.
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Hi. Plz see the link to have the full detail answer:
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ethanolamine
Hi,
Ethanolamine is one of the few truly complex molecules discovered in space that is of direct and undeniable interest to biology as we know it. Research results suggest that ethanolamine is present in the molecular clouds of space, where new stars and planets are formed. Scientists were then able to come to the conclusion that ethanolamine may have been present in the asteroids that bombarded the Earth billions of years ago. It was estimated that about a thousand trillion liters of ethanolamine could have been transferred to the early Earth by meteorite impacts. Thus, the molecule could have reached our planet from space, and combined with other molecules that contributed to the formation of more efficient and robust cell membranes that promoted the evolution of the first living organisms.
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