A Minimal Cell

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For life to have formed on Earth, the starting mix of available atoms would have to combine into simple molecules [like methane, ethane and ethene]. Simple molecules would have to combine into more complex molecules [like carbon chains with chemical groups like carboxyl and phosphate groups]. Then these smaller complex molecules would have to combine into even more complex monomer molecules [like acids found in proteins: asparagine, glycine, tyrosine and alanine. And bases found in DNA: guanine, adenine, cytosine, and thymine]. Then these complex molecules would have to combine into to macro-molecules of life.

Music: - Mozart; Adagio (from Clarinet Concerto) from the album Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 2010