https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
"Just turning on the spark in a basic pre-biotic experiment will yield 11 out of 20 amino acids."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
"Just turning on the spark in a basic pre-biotic experiment will yield 11 out of 20 amino acids."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tholin
Tholins are a wide variety of organic compounds formed by solar ultraviolet irradiation or cosmic rays from simple carbon-containing compounds such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) or ethane (C2H6), often in combination with nitrogen (N2).
Tholins are disordered polymer-like materials made of repeating chains of linked subunits and complex combinations of functional groups.
On Earth, a wide variety of soil bacteria are able to use laboratory-produced tholins as their sole source of carbon. Tholins could have been the first microbial food for heterotrophic microorganisms before autotrophy evolved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis