ext_350862 ([identity profile] neowolf2.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2013-11-25 09:30 pm (UTC)

That might work if you have pure ribose, and pure bases. I doubt such things can work at all in the more random glop formed by condensation reactions,without enzymes to catalyse precisely the ones you want.

The scam in origin-of-life research is to show you can make chemical X at some low concentration in some mixture with other stuff, and then start the next round of experiments with pure X purchased from a supply house.

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