Did this chemical reaction create the building blocks of life on Earth?
- Written by Quoc Phuong Tran, PhD Candidate in Prebiotic Chemistry, UNSW Sydney
ShutterstockHow did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them?
According to one school of thought, before the current era of DNA-based life, there was a kind of molecule called RNA (or ribonucleic acid). RNA – which is still a crucial...
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