This addition to
the inventory of organic compounds produced in extraterrestrial environments furthers the discourse of whether their delivery to the early Earth by comets and meteorites might have aided the molecular evolution that preceded the origins of life.
In doing so, they were able to fill in significant gaps in
the inventory of organic compounds in the atmosphere, finding that about a third of them were in the form of previously unmeasured semi-volatile and intermediate - volatility organic compounds (SVOCs and IVOCs).
Not exact matches
They sifted through the complete genomic
inventory of a pristine forest soil in Tübingen, Germany to uncover the diversity, abundance, and distribution
of microorganisms capable
of transformation
of halogenated
organic compounds.