| ▲ | HarHarVeryFunny a day ago | |||||||
It's a sample of one, but I think the takeaway is just that if the nucleobases are present on a random asteroid then they probably commonly occur. Of course as you note it takes a lot more than that to form these into nucleic acids. I would guess there is a more primitive stage in the emergence of life where self-replicating soups (Kaufmann: metabolisms), including things like nucleobases and amino acids, capable of collective replication/expansion exist, before we get anything as sophisticated as nucleic acids and structural encoding. | ||||||||
| ▲ | kjkjadksj 20 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
The nucleobases can self polymerize into nucleic acids | ||||||||
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