Ribonucleic acid (RNA) now lives in the shadow of its better known counterpart DNA, but what many people may not realize is that the whole origin of life has been hypothesized to be based on the chemical properties of RNA.
Earth formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago. There was nothing living and the conditions could not have supported life as it is today. A billion years later the earth was covered with some type of algae. In that billion years the first cell was formed, the first bacteria came about, and life began to evolve.
The theory of natural selection is generally accepted by the scientific community at this point in time. The theory states that individuals with traits that make it more fit to survive and reproduce in the world have a better chance of passing on their beneficial trait to their offspring. The offspring will then pass the trait on to their offspring and so on. As the trait is passed on it becomes more common in the population. The theory of natural......

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