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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by alexk307 on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:53AM (#31284058)
Does this give more support for the theory that all life on Earth started from a few strands of RNA that hitched rides on some asteroids? I wonder what would happen after thousands, or millions of rounds of their experiment?
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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by ttyprintk on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:24AM (#31284314)
That’s a question of protein synthesis. This experiment included E. coli material so it leapt over that assumedly-long phase.
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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by chriswarbo on Friday May 06, 2022 @01:14PM (#31287599)
Adding asteroids to that hypothesis only makes it (far) less likely; and also raises more questions (how did that RNA arise; and why didn't it happen on Earth?)
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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by pimpampum on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:22AM (#31286234)
That and the Alien movies
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