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>>12115233
The RNApill is incredibly based and likely to be true. However RNA is a giant goddamn molecule. Then again if I remember correctly even in the Miller Urey experiment they built like 20 or so Amino Acids using just chemicals and muddy water (and lighting) so it’s not impossible. Pic related though apparently is a “small molecule” that can self replicate. Would it be alive? It can replicate, but it lacks genetic information. It also doesn’t metabolize, but its does produce waste.

Could someone make an enzyme that can self replicate? They’re already pretty “smart”