primordial soup

American  

noun

Biology.

1. the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.

2. a laboratory preparation containing the substances believed to have composed primordial soup, and used in experiments seeking to understand the origin of life.

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primordial soup Scientific  

/ prī-môr′dē-əl /

1. A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms. Oceans of primordial soup are thought to have covered the Earth during the Precambrian Eon billions of years ago. The organic compounds in the primordial soup, such as amino acids, may have been produced by reactions in the Earth's early atmosphere, which was probably rich in methane and ammonia. The complex self-replicating organic molecules that were the precursors to life on Earth may have developed in this primordial soup.

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Etymology

Origin of primordial soup

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Director Darren Aronofsky’s company Primordial Soup will use Google’s generative AI tools in short films by three filmmakers.

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On Tuesday, Google announced a partnership with “The Whale” director Darren Aronofsky’s venture Primordial Soup, which will work with three filmmakers on short films and give them access to Google’s AI video generator Veo.

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That effort includes a partnership with Aronofsky’s venture, Primordial Soup.

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New York-based Primordial Soup said in a press release that Google’s AI tools helped solve “practical challenges such as filming with infants and visualizing the birth of the universe” in “Ancestra.”

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A prominent hypothesis is that life originated in the oceans, as organic molecules gradually assembled and became more sophisticated in a 'primordial soup' -- and this could have been facilitated by chemotaxis through the Marangoni effect.

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