“It’s still pretty useless unless it can replicate.”
RNA is catalytic. Tom Cech won the Nobel prize finding that out.
It can auto catalyze it’s own polymerization and self replicate.
“It can auto catalyze it’s own polymerization and self replicate.”
Yes, RNA has catalytic properties, but the idea that it can self-replicate is still only a hypothesis, and hasn’t been observed of demonstrated, as far as I know.