Pre RNA World

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 RNA world is a hypothesis that is heavily supported but not without its flaws. These flaws surround the stability and creation of RNA. To solve these problems a 'Pre-RNA World' was introduced. The hypothesis suggests that before RNA there was a much simpler molecule that still had "both catalytic activity and information sotrage capabilities". [1]

  1. 1) Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts and Peter Walter (2008) Molecular Biology of the cell, 5th edition, New York: Garland Science p.402