Posted: Mar 06, 2010 1:50 pm
rainbow wrote:
There is a great deal of elegance in the Sutherland experiment, but it does contradict a lot of other work that has been done on the synthesis of bases and sugars prior to nucleotide synthesis
Unsupported assertion, and generally meaningless anyway... in other words, you evaded discussing it.
rainbow wrote:Moreover, research has established that these lipids can encapsulate RNA molecules, and selectively admit the passage of base and sugar molecules to facilitate RNA replication[54, 55].
Ribose sugar isn't that easily formed under prebiotic conditions
Unsupported assertion, and generally meaningless anyway - the 'ease' of its occurrence wasn't being discussed.