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wasteofo2
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So, I'm a teenager, and have always been interested in precisely how life began on earth. Is there any widely accepted and thuroughly proven theory about how you got from inorganic molecules, or even organic molecules, to the first cell? All I've ever gotten as a respons was pretty much this:
Earth had a bunch of atoms and molecules before life existed. Through heat/light/electrical energy, these atoms and molecules began to react and bond and whatnot. Eventually, because of the sheer amount of stuff out there, complex things like Amino acids began to form. This kept going on for a while, until you had stuff like RNA, that could self-replicate. Then you had cells.
There must be a better theory out there...
Earth had a bunch of atoms and molecules before life existed. Through heat/light/electrical energy, these atoms and molecules began to react and bond and whatnot. Eventually, because of the sheer amount of stuff out there, complex things like Amino acids began to form. This kept going on for a while, until you had stuff like RNA, that could self-replicate. Then you had cells.
There must be a better theory out there...