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Solving the biochemical conundrum at the dawn of life on Earth – EurekAlert

Somehow, about four billion years ago, amino acids linked together to form proteins, and from these proteins, the basic molecules of biological life took root,…

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IMAGE: How could life emerge before there was a genetic code? A chicken or the egg conundrum of biomolecular proportions.
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CHAPEL HILL, NC – About four billion years ago, life arose from a primordial soup of chemicals. Somehow, amino acids linked together to form proteins, and from these proteins, the basic molecules of biological life took root, leading ever so slowly to the dawn of life as we know it. But how? How did the chaos of chemicals become ordered biology?

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