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A Recipe for Primordial Life

A Recipe for Primordial Life

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Recipe4Life app

The origin of life is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. This game explores the earliest chemistry that produced the building blocks of life.

Explore the volcanoes, icy lakes, geysers, and meteorite impact craters of the early Earth to see how these different environments allowed simple molecules to react together in interesting ways.

Navigate these different environments, colliding chemicals in different ways to find the reactions that produced the precursors of proteins, lipid membranes, and RNA and allowed life to emerge.

 

 

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