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Abiogenesis
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Life had to have some way to originate from non-living materials
- The abiotic (nonliving) synthesis of small organic molecules, such as
amino acids and nitrogenous bases
- The joining of these small molecules into macromolecules, such as proteins
and nucleic acids
- The packaging of these molecules into protocells, droplets with membranes
that maintained an internal chemistry different from that of their
surroundings
- The origin of self-replicating molecules ([[autocatalytic set]]) that
eventually made inheritance possible
- [[RNA World]]: It’s proposed that RNA was the first self-replicating molecule
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