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Origin of Life: The RNA World

Board Membe: Katherine Wan · 8/19/248:41 PM

Last month, I attended the Biomedical Research Academy at the University of Pennsylvania. There, I listened to a lecture that really stuck with me: The RNA World. The RNA World theory accounts for the most fundamental procedure in all life: the central dogma, or the process of transcribing DNA to RNA that is translated into protein. The theory suggests that machinery involved in the central dogma grew out of an RNA World–a world where RNA acted both as the genetic storage material and the...

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