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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by phonypc on Friday October 29, 2021 @08:19AM (#29037584)
It doesn't tell us nothing, it's just not the whole story. And why should one expect a single experiment to tell the whole story?
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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by TheRealDunkirk on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:12AM (#29038616)
It would seem that the next logical experiment is to take Miller-Urey as a given, throw a perfect blend of polymer chains into the "soup," and see if they can start forming RNA chains. I thought I had read about such an experiment, but I can't find a reference to it now. Anything coming up in Google for me is being obfuscated by this recent study, and mRNA COVID vaccine stuff.
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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:43AM (#29039040)
The term you’re looking for is the RNA world hypothesis.
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