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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

The Joy of Why

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Arana - A Very Important Suspect of Early Life on Earth

The ribasome itself is built of r n a. The crystal structure the ribasom was solved, we could actually see the catalytic site. It's clear that r and a is what makes proteins. So logically, then you get out of this kind of self referential loop. And all you need is the idea that early forms of life used r and a as their genetic material,. just like we see and viroses to day. They also used r anda as ther r catalytic material, so their enzimes were made from rna.

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