Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself
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by cyberax
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It's interesting, that we're getting down to the sizes of self-replicating RNA that realistically can form by a complete accident.
Getting this sequence by random chance out of a pile of nucleotides is a 1 in 2^90 chance. That's around 1.2*10^27 or just around 20000 moles! Not at all an impossible number.
by java-man
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2009 paper: Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme [0].
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