Laura Howes explores the geochemical origins of RNA
Did life come from Mars?
Chemistry was recently in the news with an announcement that scientific discoveries point to life beginning on Mars, but why? The answer is all to do with the chemistry of ribonucleic acid, or RNA, which is thought to have come before DNA in our chemical evolution.
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