Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: Thus there is good reason to think the RNA world did exist and that RNA invented protein synthesis if this conclusion is correct the main task of origin-of-life research then becomes explaining how the RNA world came into being The answer to this question requires knowing something about the chemistry of the prebiotic soup the aqueous solution of organic molecules ir Which life originated Fortunately even before the RNA world hypothesis was proposed investigators had gained useful insights into that chemistry. By the 1930s Alexander Oparin in Russia and J.B.S. Haldane in England had pointed out that the organic compounds needed for life could not have formed on the earth if the atmosphere was as rich in oxygen (oxidizing) as it is today Oxygen, which takes hydrogen atoms from other compoun ...
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