If DNA needs enzymes to work and enzymes need DNA to be made, how are enzymes made in the first place?

Question

If DNA needs enzymes to work and enzymes need DNA to be made, how are enzymes made in the first place?

In: Biology

Answer 1

So what you’re looking for is called “Abiogenesis”, or how life arose out of non-living stuff.

Basically, if you take the right mix of elements in the right conditions, they will naturally start to form amino acids.

This is step one.

Over a long enough time, the amino acids react and you start to see nucleotides form, and nucleotides then bunch up to form RNA and eventually DNA (and all the other stuff needed for life)