Re: SPECULATIONS ON THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE


"James Kendall" <jim7june@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d4khte$104f$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Experiments over the past seventy years indicate that, given the
> assumed primordial atmosphere, natural effects such as lightning would
> have produced the complex organic monomers of DNA and RNA as well as
> some monomers of various cell structures.

To the best of my knowlege, no "prebiotic chemistry" experiment has
ever produced a nucleoside (RNA or DNA monomer).

> Also, experiments have shown
> that each of these monomers will polymerize spontaneously to form
> molecules of DNA, RNA and certain constituents of cell structures.

To the best of my knowlege, no "prebiotic chemistry" experiment has
ever produced polymer DNA or RNA from nucleosides, nucleotides, or
activated nucleotides, regardless of the purity of the supplied
monomers.

If you know of an experiment which has done either of these things,
please provide a reference.


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