Theoretical origin of life; making catalysts (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Friday, June 19, 2015, 00:36 (3206 days ago) @ David Turell

Intelligent design in the lab has found a gene which can help form proto-catalysts:-http://phys.org/news/2015-06-scientists-evidence-key-ingredient-dawn.html-"'We now have more information about how amino acids eventually evolved into complex molecules necessary to create life as we know it," Carter said. "But perhaps more importantly, we've been able to provide a new set of tools that will enable others to approach questions about the origin of life in ways that are scientifically sound and productive."-"And there are still questions about how all this happened.
 (my bold)-"'This doesn't yet solve the central chicken and the egg problem," Carter said. "Even the designed protozyme requires a ribosome to synthesize it (my bold)and lead to protein creation. But what we've shown is that blueprints for life actually contained more information than anyone had realized (my italics)because both strands of the ancestral gene were responsible for encoding the two classes of synthetases needed for the creation of proteins."-"This result unifies what scientists previously considered to be two distinct superfamilies of modern enzymes and greatly simplifies the complex process of forming the diversity of catalysts necessary for life: both catalysts were available at the same times and places before there were cells to package life's machinery."-Note that information (in the italics) is required. How is that created by chance?


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