Origin of life


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 * External link: Molecular biology of the cell

Did life begin with or amino acids? Maybe it began with a molecule that was both a nucleic acid and an amino acid.

3-Aminobenzoic-acid:



Creating the monomers in the is easy but getting the monomers to bond into a polymer is hard. So maybe it wasnt a polymer at all. Maybe it was a one dimensional liquid crystal. See.