Looking for the Primordial Genetic Honeycomb

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Early Genetic Material, Clay Minerals, Clay&Ndash, Nucleic Acid Complexes, Surface-Mediated Origin Of Genetic Material, Prebiotic Evolution

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All life forms on Earth share the same biological program based on the DNA/RNA genomes and proteins. The genetic information, recorded in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA and RNA molecule, supplies the language of life which is transferred through the different generations, thus ensuring the perpetuation of genetic information on Earth. The presence of a genetic system is absolutely essential to life. Thus, the appearance in an ancestral era of a nucleic acid-like polymer able to undergo Darwinian evolution indicates the beginning of life on our planet. The building of primordial genetic molecules, whatever they were, required the presence of a protected environment, allowing the synthesis and concentration of precursors (nucleotides), their joining into larger molecules (polynucleotides), the protection of forming polymers against degradation (i.e. by cosmic and UV radiation), thus ensuring their persistence in a changing environment, and the expression of the “biological” potential of the molecule (its capacity to self-replicate and evolve). Determining how these steps occurred and how the primordial genetic molecules originated on Earth is a very difficult problem that still must be resolved. It has long been proposed that surface chemistry, i.e. on clay minerals, could have played a crucial role in the prebiotic formation of molecules basic to life. In the present work, we discuss results obtained in different fields that strengthen the hypothesis of a clay-surface-mediated origin of genetic material.

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