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[Rumraket (Mikkel R.)]

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This brings us back to abiogenesis and to Dr. James Tour’s work on the origin of life. The issue is not the chemistry of simple molecules but the informational barrier of the first functional cell. Before there can be any concept of fitness, there must already exist a system that can store, read, and apply information toward its own survival. That system must include encoded instructions, decoding machinery, and the coordinated chemistry to execute those instructions. None of this follows from random reactions in a prebiotic soup. The problem is not making amino acids; it is organizing them into a self-referential, information-driven process.

What did the first functional cell look like and how do you know this?