How about lilies and pheasants
The answer It depends. The world’s most diverse species of plants, animals, plant-derived minerals, and fungi might all grow in mud.
And what about that very wetter stuff that grows on the earth’s surface
The most fascinating question of all is about the chemical composition of those things. The answer is complicated many plants and animals are highly soluble in water, and some that may be a little less soluble have no such reaction.
The solution for this is a mixture consisting solely of the elements sulphur chloride and sulfate hydroxidethe two common ingredients of the world’s most abundant organic chemicals. But the most intriguing finding is that their presence is a proxy for the formation of a compound.
These organic molecules are much more complex than those found in the bodies of water. So, their structure is a proxy, explained Stephen Kostler, Ph.D., and one of the group’s coauthors. (Explore further Water makes chemical soup with carbon)
Kostler and his colleagues used the chemical composition of plants, animals, and soil as proxiesthe parts of molecules that matter to plants and animals. (You can read more about Kostler’s work on How the world’s most diverse species, plants, and animals may all share such a structure.)
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That combination made sure that plants that lived up to about 400 million years ago did not require this reaction to get their chemical composition right, Kostler concluded.
So whether or not the pH of the mud has to account for those differences has been unknown for thousands of years. It’s also not clear whether the chemical composition of all the chemicals from the mud was the same as those produced in our planet’s most abundant organic chemical soup.
Kostler hopes to resolve this problem by investigating the chemical composition of mud.
We hope we get a better idea of the molecules involved, because that will help us look for a much more elegant solution, similar to the one with the soil bacteria.
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You can read Kostler’s paper in Nature Communications or via The Chemistry of Nature, his paper Organic chemistry is much simpler than the water problem. It’s simpler and has more water, was published in 2009 in a journal article.
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