The Making Of The Cat
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Soup or Sandwich
IN THE VERY BEGINNING, about 4.6 billion years ago (give or take a few
years), a small ball of rock, water and gas had come to be and immedi-
ately set about the process of combining its atoms into more and more
complex arrangements. Thus began that m ....
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.... and complex organic (carbon-
based) molecules out of the basic components of the atmos- phere. As these
molecules slowly rained into the early oceans, a kind of primordial soup
was created. Via the ultraviolet radiation, light- ning, volcanic action,
and other forms of heat and energy, this soup was able to slowly combine
the organic molecules into ever more com- plex forms: first simple amino
acids, then organic macromolecules, then single-strand RNA molecules, and
finally simple viruse ....
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