You add the droplet to the system.

You have on your left an olive oil droplet, and this olive oil droplet gets attacked by enzymes.

The dispersants as I was saying their job is to break down the lipid membrane.

lipid membranes in our body, starting with cells of the skin, the cells of organs.

Now the content of this plaque the lipid, the cholesterol, the fat, the dead white blood cell.

Carbon dioxide, a little bit of sunlight, you end up with a lipid that is highly refined.

So let's say this is a clump of white blood cells and lipid materials and all the rest

And what happens first is the solvents break into the oil, the lipid membrane, they let the surfactants in there.

For example, here is a lovely yellow droplet of milk on the left, there is nothing on the right.

Oil droplet forms through self assembly, has a chemical metabolism inside so it can use energy, and it uses that energy to move itself around in its environment.

In this protocell model, it's just an oil droplet, but a chemical metabolism inside that allows this protocell to use energy to do something, to actually become dynamic, as we'll see here.

The frame and radii of this web is made up of one type of silk, while the capture spiral is a composite of two different silks the filament and the sticky droplet.

It's true that you can't take an individual rain droplet and say where it's come from, where it's going to end up but you can say with pretty good certainty whether it's going to be cloudy tomorrow.

So we're able to then see the self assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously, and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar this diverse, very complex, organic black tar.

As you know, when you put oil and water together, they don't mix, but through self assembly we can get a nice oil droplet to form, and we can actually use this as a body for our artificial organism or for our protocell, as you will see later.