
Could life have started much earlier in the Universe?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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What Is the Key Elements of Life?
Protein chanses are thought to have been the first little bits of life where you canuneed chain of protein to form d and a that can build an organism. Even a teeny unicellular organism needs d and a structure in order to replicate itself. For that to happen, you need these protein chains that are not strong. They're kind of weakly bonded. And so if you have some rampantmo yol zoomin around in, say, a primordial soup, they're going to knock over this delicate protein chain like bowling pins at a bowling alley, and there goes your first attempt at life. But one of the more compelling theories for why life was able to
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