3. How are self-replicating molecules, such as RNA molecules in the “RNA World” hypothesis, essential to the most popular hypotheses about the origin of life on Earth?

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3.	How are self-replicating molecules, such as RNA molecules in the “RNA World” hypothesis, essential to the most popular hypotheses about the origin of life on Earth?

anonymous · Answer

RNA were formed before DNA,hence they wer the first formed genetic material ...just lyk DNA they can also store gentic infrmations.......nd can also catalyze reactions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world_hypothesis check this link:)

anonymous · Answer

DNA storage information, and RNA is a copy of it, then RNA can be translated into proteins