The same recipe that Created Life on Planet Earth may exist on Mars

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly simple chemistry.

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• In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly simple chemistry.
• Early Earth (much like Mars now) is thought to have been covered in rocks that enabled all of the steps for RNA synthesis.
• While mysteries still remain, this is a significant breakthrough in the search for the beginnings of life.

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How life emerged on rocky planets such as Earth (and possibly Mars) has been an enduring mystery. It most likely began with RNA.

It is thought that RNA (ribonucleic acid) probably managed how information was organized in the first life-forms to exist in the Solar System. As opposed to double-stranded DNA, RNA usually manifests in the form of a single-stranded molecule.

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It performs a plethora of functions that include carrying genetic information, making chemical reactions possible, regulating certain molecules, and replicating pieces of DNA to deliver where they are needed.

Molecular Biologist Steven Benner from the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME) recently led a study that revealed RNA is the result of simple molecules merging on rocks billions of years ago during the Hadean epoch.

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