Self replicating

... point it would need to become a living cell with all the above requirements. so it would need to evolve a power source, growth system, and DNA for replicating those sytems

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... signaling, information storage (DNA!!!) etc. But what signaling does self-replicating RNA need?

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... nucleotides, then arriving at the ultimate mode of natural selection – self replication. Aromaticity enables good constraining of energy and good ... In plain English, not in academEnglish verbiage. - Earth life, self-replicating mass format, is just another naturally selected mass format. ...

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... origin (panspermia) 2. Abiogenesis or spontaneous origin on Earth (self-replicating macromolecules under the influence of natural selection). 3. Special creation: ...

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... Good to know your are a computer programmer. I have done some myself, mainly on 4GL relational database stuff As far as the species point ... I think helps. http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replicating-synthetic-bacterial-cell/faq/ They produced a clone of an existing ...

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