Most modern thought is seems to be saying that RNA came first. It has
properties which seem to give it the ability to self-catalyse.
glenn
Again this is way out of my field, that (changing a worn out
expression), I don't know enough even to be dangerous.
The modern thought would be that the RNA would be able to form
proteins without a "translating" compound? Do the amino acids just,
"clump" together because they are in the presence of the RNA? I
thought the peptide bond is not the perfered linkage of amino acids,
and it required the "translating" proteins, to force that linkage, in
addition to do the selecting. :-?
Henry Erbes