Sorry If these questions are stupid, I was just randomly thinking about how rna started.
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If a new day 0 organism were to emerge, it would be unable to compete with today’s organisms, with their billions of years of evolution to compete and perfectly fit the environment.
Even in sterile no-preservative food items, which seem like the perfect isolated environment, they would die. Thousands of chemical compounds/structures produced by every organism on earth exist to protect cells from infection and resource theft. Liquify strawberries and you’ll get more than just sugar and protein – it’s all the strawberry’s protective enzymes and locked proteins and whatnot.
I just watched a YT video by astronomy news blogger Anton Petrov related to this question. It’s called the Leventhal paradox. It’s about how rare life in the universe may actually be. Here’s my understanding of it. The protein required for photosynthesis has to be folded in a specific way. Researchers have figured out that the required folding is only 1 out of 10^300 possible combos. Researchers have also estimated that there only 10^30 places in the milky way where this protein can potentially form. That averages out to 1 potential creation of this photosynthesis protein per 10^10 milky way like galaxies.
edit: can’t remember if the numbers are exactly correct, but the scale is right.
I just watched a YT video by astronomy news blogger Anton Petrov related to this question. It’s called the Leventhal paradox. It’s about how rare life in the universe may actually be. Here’s my understanding of it. The protein required for photosynthesis has to be folded in a specific way. Researchers have figured out that the required folding is only 1 out of 10^300 possible combos. Researchers have also estimated that there only 10^30 places in the milky way where this protein can potentially form. That averages out to 1 potential creation of this photosynthesis protein per 10^10 milky way like galaxies.
edit: can’t remember if the numbers are exactly correct, but the scale is right.
The problem is there is life everywhere on earth now, any nutritious “soup” sitting around long enough to turn into new life is going to be something else’s lunch.
The problem is there is life everywhere on earth now, any nutritious “soup” sitting around long enough to turn into new life is going to be something else’s lunch.
The problem is there is life everywhere on earth now, any nutritious “soup” sitting around long enough to turn into new life is going to be something else’s lunch.
Who says life has to use RNA?
Who says life has to use RNA?
Who says life has to use RNA?
I cant remember the tik toker who does it, but theres this girl on tik tok whose a scientist that is actually studying exactly how organic life formed from basically just a bunch of hodge podge of chemicals.
They basically took the same basic chemicals that make up basic biological living things like some forms of bacteria and put it in a sealed environment in a lab to basically see if bacteria or any sort of life will form.
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