Essential features of any chemical origin of life model:


1) What conditions were necessary to create life? Why?

2) What was the first energy source?

    It is obvious to most people that living things are highly organized. What is less obvious is that this organization must come from somewhere else. That is: An energy source is required to create the complexity found in living things. One of the key features of any origin of life model is to describe this energy source and explain how it was used to create the complexity of life.

3) What was the first genetic material? Why did it form?

4) When did evolution start? Why?

5) When did metabolism start? Why?

6) When did RNA form? Why? Was it simple or complex?

7) How did protein synthesis (translation) develop?
 
8) How did the modern genetic code come about?

9) What functions did early proteins have?

10) When did DNA form? Why?

11) When did cells/membranes form? Why?


    These key features in the development of modern living things should be answered (at least in outline) in any origin of life model worthy of the name.



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