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To: jennyp
And there are known auto-catalytic RNAs that are, IIRC, less than 100 bases long.

They are not organisms, they are not self-replicating organisms. Science tells us that the smallest living, self reproducing organisms are some 1,000,000 DNA bases long. Some scientists say that it might be possible to have a self-replicating living organism with half that amount of DNA but none would go much lower than that. Also, you keep repeating the Miller-Urey lie - amino acids do not make DNA. DNA makes RNA which makes amino acids which when strung together properly make proteins.

636 posted on 12/16/2002 10:19:58 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
DNA makes RNA which makes amino acids which when strung together properly make proteins.

You want to revise this, right?

663 posted on 12/17/2002 12:24:19 AM PST by donh
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