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# Abiogenesis
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- Life had to have some way to originate from non-living materials
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1. The abiotic (nonliving) synthesis of small organic molecules, such as
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amino acids and nitrogenous bases
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2. The joining of these small molecules into macromolecules, such as proteins
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and nucleic acids
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3. The packaging of these molecules into protocells, droplets with membranes
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that maintained an internal chemistry different from that of their
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surroundings
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4. The origin of self-replicating molecules ([[autocatalytic-set|autocatalytic set]]) that
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eventually made inheritance possible
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- [[rna-world|RNA World]]: It's proposed that RNA was the first self-replicating molecule
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