I understood less than half of this, but it is still interesting and gives me additional exposure to how our biological systems work in general. Thank you for posting it.
@TonyTigerTonyTiger10 ай бұрын
4:59 "Biology down" approaches to the origin of life. Or if you are James Tour, you never go down: you start at the top and stay there, and talk about modern eukaryotic cells - and even yeast interactomes - as though the origin of life involved them. Tour is so clueless about the origin of life that he thinks the first cells had nuclei, mitochondria, lysosomes, cytoskeletons with microtubules and actin/myosin filaments, phospholipid plasma membranes with genetically encoded proteins, ribosomes synthesizing polypeptides using tRNA, mRNA, and the "universal" genetic code, etc.
@johannessievers67599 ай бұрын
amen :D
@BolocomcafeАй бұрын
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@jimdandy91182 жыл бұрын
Never understood the obsession of chemists to get to RNA when it’s too unstable to be an early form of DNA so worthless. Also, ribozyme chirality makes the ribozyme outside of a living cell irrelevant as well. I guess the whole pursuit creates careers but never actually does anything of substance.
@aerx2 жыл бұрын
I mean sure, but at the same time its not about the "truth" of origin of life. That is a moot point. Even if you succed in bootstrapping evolution and "true life" from chemistry, you have only shown one way not the way. I see this kind of research as a way of doing basic research. I believe most of the different frameworks beeing pursued hold great potential for enhancing our knowledge and ultimately making everyones lives better.
@jimdandy91182 жыл бұрын
@@aerx I’m saying the whole abiogenesis scam is worthless. The simplest living cell capable of cell division to even begin evolution requires 473 genes, hundreds of proteins, a functional cell wall and a form of metabolism…..abiogenesis cannot get there and these guys know it. Worthless.
@Thepicturelamp2 жыл бұрын
catabolism doesn't exist . great take
@jimdandy91182 жыл бұрын
@@Thepicturelamp Catabolism absolutely exists. No idea why you would bring that up since abiogenesis never gets to a metabolic pathway to break anything down.
@Thepicturelamp2 жыл бұрын
@@jimdandy9118 just pointing out that recycling pathways are a huge part of biochemistry . Recycling pathways might be a late invention, or the synthetic logic of all (or some) of life may have been conserved from early nonenzymatic reaction pathways. The idea that RNA is prebiotically undesirable because it self-cleaves is silly because that might be exactly why you would want it prebiotically