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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Josh Marcus

Scientists discover chemical ‘missing link’ that might explain origins of life on Earth

Scientists may have discovered a reaction that provides the “missing link” to help explain how early life formed on Earth about 4 billion years ago.

All living things contain ribonucleic acid, otherwise known as RNA, a core molecule that serves crucial functions in organisms like decoding genetic information and helping build proteins from simpler amino acids.

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