The RNA World Hypothesis
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The RNA-world hypothesis proposes that RNA once served as both hereditary material and catalyst, before DNA and proteins divided that work between them.
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A ribozyme catalyzing its own copying, without any protein enzyme present, models how early RNA might have replicated itself.
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This is one competing hypothesis for life's origin, not settled — this course takes no side on how life began.
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