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all life on earth can be traced back to a single ancestor → …: …

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LUCA: last universal common ancestor

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LUCA common to all organisms that have

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lived or live on Earth

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According to Darwin, first life form came about in a … with …, …, .., …, …, etc

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warm little pond; ammonia; phosphoric salts; light; heat; electricity

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biomolecules: the molecules of … → …

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living things; organic molecules

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life originated from nonliving matter in

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4 stages

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(4 stages) stage 1: …., simple … evolved from … before cells came to be: e.g. .. and …

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organic monomers; monomers; inorganic compounds; amino acids; nucleotides

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(4 stages) stage 2: …, organic monomers … to form …: e.g. …, …, and …

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organic polymers; polymerized; organic polymers; DNA; RNA; proteins

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(4 stages) stage 3: …, organic polymers became …, forming the … (…/…)

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protocells; enclosed in a membrane; cell precursors; protocells; probionts

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(4 stages) stage 4: …, probionts acquired ability to …, among other …

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living cells; self-replicate; cellular properties

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abiogenesis: origin of … from ..

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.life; nonliving matter

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) oparin-haldane hypothesis → … hypothesis

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primordial soup

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) oparin-haldane: first stage in the origin of life was … from … present in Earth’s ….

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evolution of monomers; inorganic compounds; early atmosphere

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) early earth had very little …, made up of …, …, …, …

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oxygen; water vapor; hydrogen gas; methane; ammonia

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) methane and ammonia are …, powerful when ….

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reducing agents; oxygen is absent

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) oparin-haldane: early earth had …. in which .. reactions could have driven … (…) of organic monomers from inorganic molecules with addition of …

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reducing atmosphere (because of CH4 and NH3); redox; chemical evolution; abiotic synthesis; energy

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) miller-urey experiment: early earth energy sources: heat from … and …, … from isotopes, … in …, … (particularly …)

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volcanoes; meteorites; radioactivity; electric discharges; lightning; solar radiation; ultraviolet

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) miller-urey experiment: miller placed mixture of …, …, …, and … in a closed system and … it, and also circulated it past an …

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methane; ammonia; hydrogen; water; heated; electric spark

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) miller-urey experiment: variety of … and other … were formed
- all …

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amino acids; organic acids; 22 amino acids

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) miller-urey experiment: recent evidence suggests that … and … would have been abundant in early Earth atmosphere, challenging validity of experiment
BUT: other experiments showed that ammonia could have been produced when ….

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nitrogen gas; ammonia; iron-nickel sulfides catalyzed change of N2 to NH3

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) miller-urey experiment: small organic compounds formed on surface by atmospheric gases would not have been destroyed through … or …, as there was no … or …, and … would have washed them into the … where the … could become …

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oxidation; decay; free oxygen; bacteria; ocean; oceans; warm organic soups

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) iron-sulfur world hypothesis: proposal that thermal vents at the bottom of oceans could have provided all the … and … necessary to …

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elements; conditions; synthesize organic monomers

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) iron-sulfur world hypothesis: … emitted from vents (…., …, …) pass over … and … minerals, which would then act as … that drive chemical evolution from …. to … molecules

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dissolved gases; carbon monoxide; ammonia; hydrogen sulfide; iron; nickel; catalysts; inorganic; organic molecules

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) extraterrestrial origins hypothesis: organic molecules from … and … could have .. the chemical origin of life on earth

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comets; meteorites; seeded

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(stage 1. evolution of monomers) extraterrestrial: some hypothesize that … evolved first on another planet

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bacterium-like cells

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) in cytoplasm, organic monomers join to form … in the presence of …

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polymers; enzymes

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) enzymes are

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proteins

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) iron-sulfur world hypothesis: organic molecules will …. and amino acids will form … in presence of …. under conditions found at …

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react; peptides; iron-nickel sulfides; thermal vents

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) iron-sulfur world hypothesis: iron-nickel sulfides have a … that attracts … and …. to form …

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charged surface; amino acids; binds them together; proteins

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) protein-first hypothesis: amino acids polymerize abiotically when exposed to

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dry heat

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) protein-first hypothesis: once amino acid were present in oceans, they could have collected in … along …

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shallow puddles; rocky shore

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) protein-first hypothesis: heat of the sun could cause amino acids to form …, small…. with some …

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proteinoids; polypeptides; catalytic properties

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) protein-first hypothesis: in water, proteinoids form …, structures composed only of … that have many ….

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microspheres; protein; cell properties

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) protein-first hypothesis: newly formed polypeptides may have had …, a selectively …. trait → …. in formation of first cell

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enzymatic properties; advantageous; natural selection

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) protein-first hypothesis: assumes that protein enzymes arose prior to …: genes that encode proteins followed evolution of …

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first DNA molecule; first polypeptide

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) RNA-first hypothesis: suggests that only … was needed to progress toward formation of cell

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RNA

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) RNA-first hypothesis: RNA can be both a … and …

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substrate; enzyme

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) RNA-first hypothesis: some viruses have

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RNA

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(stage 2. evolution of polymers) RNA-first hypothesis: RNA could have carried out processes of life commonly associated with … and …

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DNA; proteins

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) protocell/probiont: structure characterized by having an

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outer membrane

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) life requires chemical reactions to take place within a … to protect from …

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boundary; disruption of conditions

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) cell’s plasma membrane is critical to … and … of …

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regulation; maintenance; cellular activities

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) modern cell membrane made up of … in a …, where first plasma membranes were likely made of ….

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phospholipids; bilayer; fatty acids

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) fatty acids could have formed from

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chemical reactions at hydrothermal vents

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) in water, fatty acids assemble into small spheres called … → single layer of … organized with … pointed out and … pointed toward sphere’s center

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micelles; fatty acids; hydrophilic heads; hydrophobic tails

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) micelles can merge to form ….

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vesicles

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) vesicles are … than micelles and are surrounded by a …. of ….

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larger; bilayer; fatty acids

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) individual fatty acids can flip between …, to help move select molecules ….

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two layers; into or out of the cell

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) first protocell likely this sort of

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vesicle

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) if … are made available to protein microspheres, they can associate and form a …

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lipids; lipid-protein membrane

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) shared properties with modern cells: resemble …, …. difference, …, subject to …

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bacteria; electrical potential; divide; selection

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) oparin showed that under certain …, …, and … conditions, mixtures of macromolecules can form …., which tend to … and incorporate substances from …; eventually, a … could form

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temperature; ionic composition; pH; coacervate droplets; absorb; environment; semipermeable boundary

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) bangham discovered that lipids could naturally organize themselves into … about the size of a … → …

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double-layered bubbles; cell; liposomes

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) liposomes could have provided life’s first

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membranous boundary

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) maybe liposomes with phospholipid membrane engulfed other early molecules with …, or … abilities

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enzymatic; replicative

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) membrane-first hypothesis: first cell had to have a … before any other parts

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plasma membrane

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) a protocell would need …. (….) so that it could …

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nutrition; other molecules; grow

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) hypothesis that protocells were …: organisms that consume …

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heterotrophic; preformed organic molecules

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) if protocells evolved at hydrothermal vents, they could have carried out ….: synthesis of … from … and …

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chemosynthesis; organic molecules; inorganic molecules; nutrients

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) glycolysis: metabolic pathway that transforms … into … for a cell to do …

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high-energy chemical bonds; energy; work

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) glycolysis: first stage of …, occurs otuside of …

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cellular respiration; mitochondria

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) glycolysis: in early stages of life’s origin, ATP would have been available in a … as an energy source

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preformed state

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) natural selection would have favored evolution of …. as means to provide renewable energy supply

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ATP/ADP recycling

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) natural selection of ATP/ADP must have occurred very …. in history of life, since all life on Earth uses ATP

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early

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) ATP likely synthesized first by

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fermentation

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) mitochondria share common ancestor with group of … that … via an …

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bacteria; synthesize ATP; electron transport chain

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) protocell must have first had limited ability to …, millions of years for … to completely evolve

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break down organic molecules; glycolysis

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(stage 3. evolution of protocells) some evidence suggests that microspheres from which protocells evolved may have had some

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catalytic ability

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) central dogma:

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DNA → RNA → protein

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) according to RNA-first hypothesis: RNA first to

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evolve

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) according to RNA-first hypothesis: these genes would have directed and enzymatically conducted

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protein synthesis

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) evidence for RNA-first thing: ribozymes are …, viruses have …

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enzymatic RNA molecules; RNA genes

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) RNA-first hypothesis: reverse transcription may have occurred within protocell, eventually leading to …, once DNA genes developed, protein synthesis would occur according to …

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DNA-encoded genes; central dogma

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) according to protein-first hypothesis: …./… were first

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proteins; polypeptides

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) protein-first: after protocell developed a plasma membrane and enzymes, it had ability to synthesize … and … from … in …

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DNA; RNA; small molecules; ocean

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) protein-first: Because nucleic acids are complicated, it seems more likely that … were needed first to guide synthesis of … and then ….

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enzymes; nucleotides; nucleic acids

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) after DNA formed, protein synthesis would occur according to

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central dogma

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(stage 4. Evolution of a Self-Replication System) Cairns-Smith proposed that polypeptides and RNA evolved at the …, such that first true cell would have … that could replicate because of presence of …, this means, though, that two unlikely events would happen at same time

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same time; RNA genes; proteins

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