ELI5- chemically speaking, why is it so difficult to recreate life in a lab?

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Molecules can interact and bind to each other in so many different ways. For example, amino acids, the foundation for proteins, have 64 possible things they can code for. From there those amino acids can combine and interact with each other in a whole lot of ways. Eventually the amount of proteins you can build is in the thousands. Those thousands can also interact in so many different ways. All of these combinations can be undone by changes in pH or temperature.

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