has anyone ever heard of stanley miller?

[imachavel]

the guy that did experiments with heated water and a few hydrocarbons and came up with amino acids?

pretty interesting stuff, huh?

 

[benzyme]

ammonia + methane and good ol' lightnin' --> simple amino acids -->peptides ---> nucleotides--> simple membranous organisms/bacteria

fundamental biochem

 

[imachavel]

pretty damn interesting, don't you think?

 

[benzyme]

fairly.

what really intrigues me is how dynamic dna/rna is. viruses mutate, pretty much guaranteeing job stability for biochemists/biotechnologists