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• Synthesis of monomers: The Miller-Urey experiment
• Nucleic acids composed of phosphates, sugars and bases as:
  • Ribose sugar
  • Phosphates (from rock erosion)
  • Nucleobases (purines, pyrimidines)
• Primordial puddles
• ATP prividing energy to bond monomers
• Protocells
• Replicase
• The panspermia "hypothesis"