floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoAll Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.www.popularmechanics.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down18
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minus-squarecrawancon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up31·edit-24 months agowell, we need RNA before DNA. and we already have rna origin theories, so no, space dna doesn’t seem to fit there as an emergent property of rna to self replicate. here’s a good one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
well, we need RNA before DNA. and we already have rna origin theories, so no, space dna doesn’t seem to fit there as an emergent property of rna to self replicate.
here’s a good one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world