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Published online 5 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010308-5
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Missing links made simple
Stripped-down biomolecules give a glimpse of how chemistry could have given birth to biology.
Over 3.5 billion years ago, chemistry gave birth to biology. Life is a cocktail of nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA, and proteins that help to make each other.
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