{"id":108145,"date":"2020-06-04T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/how-dna-and-rna-subunits-might-have-formed-to-make-the-first-genetic-alphabet"},"modified":"2020-06-04T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:02:50","slug":"how-dna-and-rna-subunits-might-have-formed-to-make-the-first-genetic-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/how-dna-and-rna-subunits-might-have-formed-to-make-the-first-genetic-alphabet","title":{"rendered":"How DNA and RNA subunits might have formed to make the first genetic alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-dna-and-rna-subunits-might-have-formed-to-make-the-first-genetic-alphabet3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding the prebiotic origins of the nucleic acids is a long-standing challenge. The latest experiments support the idea that the first nucleic acid encoded information using a mixed \u2018alphabet\u2019 of RNA and DNA subunits. RNA and DNA nucleosides might have emerged together on prebiotic Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the prebiotic origins of the nucleic acids is a long-standing challenge. The latest experiments support the idea that the first nucleic acid encoded information using a mixed \u2018alphabet\u2019 of RNA and DNA subunits. RNA and DNA nucleosides might have emerged together on prebiotic Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}