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Comment by kjkjadksj

6 days ago

The nucleobases can self polymerize into nucleic acids

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pfdietz  5 days ago

Since nucleobases contain neither sugars nor phosphates, no they can't.

  • kjkjadksj  5 days ago

    Nucleotides*

    • pfdietz  4 days ago

      They didn't discover nucleotides on this asteroid.

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