The Fundamental Mystery of Life: Can Modern Physics Explain its Origins?

The origin of life on Earth is a major unsolved problem of how biology arose from prebiotic chemistry. Some people think that life first got started from RNA, but researchers believe proteins came first. Proteins are most of a cell’s mass and are the maker molecules that catalyze growth reactions. Proteins form specific folded structures, which are the bases for the molecular functions that create the actions and behaviors of the cell. The foldcat hypothesis explains how the middleman genes were simply not needed at first. Peptides made proteins as the first step toward the origin of life.