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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: latebind on 04/02/2010 10:34:20

Title: How did DNA evolve?
Post by: latebind on 04/02/2010 10:34:20

What were the processes that lead to the creation of functional DNA?

Title: Re: How did DNA evolve?
Post by: Madidus_Scientia on 04/02/2010 13:06:09

DNA is too complex to have formed in the first organism. Abiogenesis is a complex subject, here is a good video explaining it.

Edit: Thanks for changing your post to make this one seem less relevant latebind.

Title: How did DNA evolve?
Post by: chris on 19/02/2010 08:50:07

This news item - http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/1710/ - describes the work of chemist John Sutherland, who has been working out how nature came up with genetic "letters" in the first place...

Chris

Title: How did DNA evolve?
Post by: KennyC on 24/02/2010 12:56:58

And are there other possible ways of encoding information biologically such that evolution and life could exist in alternate forms?