Protocell | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-03-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocell


00:00:33 1 Overview
00:01:48 2 Selectivity for compartmentalization
00:03:40 2.1 Energy gradient
00:04:32 3 Vesicles and micelles
00:06:23 3.1 Geothermal ponds and clay
00:08:16 3.2 Montmorillonite bubbles
00:09:12 3.3 Membrane transport
00:12:11 4 Artificial models
00:12:20 4.1 Langmuir-Blodgett deposition
00:12:57 4.2 Jeewanu protocells
00:15:01 5 Ethics and controversy



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SUMMARY
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A protocell (or protobiont) is a self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed as a stepping-stone toward the origin of life. A central question in evolution is how simple protocells first arose and how they could differ in reproductive output, thus enabling the accumulation of novel biological emergences over time, i.e. biological evolution.  Although a functional protocell has not yet been achieved in a laboratory setting, the goal to understand the process appears well within reach.