If three ingredients are present - sugars, amino acids, and fatty acids - cells will spontaneously emerge from nonliving chemistry.
Most scientists believe that the first large functional macromolecule to appeared on Earth was
What was necessary on early Earth in order for RNA molecules to form, copy each other, and evolve?
Just as fatty acids are attracted to each other and form ______, phospholipids are attracted to each other and form ______.
When a meteorite hit the Earth in 1969 and was analyzed, what did scientists find?
Scientists who wish to experiment in an environment like that found on Earth 4 billion years ago can look at
What advantage would free fatty acids offer over phospholipids when it came to forming primeval membranes?
Scientists David Deamer and Jack Szostak took different approaches to discovering how RNA polymers could have formed on early Earth. Both found that their methods resulted in RNA polymerization through different ways that lipids helped RNA nucleotides link up. Their results indicate that