RE: The code that is DNA
December 17, 2019 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2019 at 12:14 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 17, 2019 at 11:38 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: Uhm... the 'Sense of scale' in your comment is just a tad 'Off'.
Everything we're finding/discovering is still all within the same biology.
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So, speaking as a complete lay-man, once a certain DNA (Three base pairs. Right handed chyralty etc) type became 'The majority'? Then, yes, pretty much everything else became 'Food' for it and was (For want of a better term) eaten to extinction.
Actually... 'If' the "RNA world" hypothesis is correct then, litterally, the DNA world of today made the previous biology 'extinct'.
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Hello, I'm not sure I understand why my sense of scale is off on account of such findings emerging within the same biology. I don't understand why DNA would make RNA go extinct back then, when DNA is currently transcribed to RNA in our cells, and there are still microorganisms in existence with either RNA or DNA genomes.
I'm also not sure that microorganisms, even today, are eating each other in such a way; that's why many bacteria are grown in cultures made of agar, sugar, milk, etc. They mainly derive their energy from other chemicals, or light, etc. So I think the "eating" analogy would need to be better substantiated, or explained better at the least. I haven't looked into the RNA World hypothesis beyond a video someone posted a few weeks ago.
