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Course name

ASTBIO 502 Astrobiology Special Topics -Origin Of Life

Institution

University of Washington

Instructor

David Catling

Wikipedia Expert

Ian (Wiki Ed)

Subject

Astrobiology

Course dates

2023-09-30 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-01-03 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors

12

This course reviews current research and understanding of the origin of life (OoL). We go from planetary environments required for the OoL to the details of prebiotic synthesis of monomers and polymers, and the origin of protocells, metabolism, and the genetic code.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Gretashum	Last universal common ancestor, Condensation reaction	Polyelectrolyte theory of the gene
Ujons	Entropy and life, Warm little pond	Stellar influences on an origin of life setting, Panspermia
Dylan Vecchione	Protocell	Miller-Urey experiment
Plutooprojector	Homochirality	CHON
Pmonreal	Miller-Urey experiment	Protocell
Avkara	Proto-metabolism	Cyanosulfidic Prebiotic Synthesis
HaskelleTW	Earliest known life forms	Abiogenesis
Aulses	Panspermia, Stellar influences on an origin of life setting	Warm little pond, Entropy and life
MikeSadler11	CHON	Homochirality
Brinaluvsrocks	Abiogenesis	Earliest known life forms
Jssacks	Cyanosulfidic Prebiotic Synthesis	Proto-metabolism
Kcshaffman	Polyelectrolyte theory of the gene	Condensation reaction, Last universal common ancestor