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my hazy memory is that it is/was assumed that the cell wall arose pretty naturally from an asymmetric protein that was hydrophilic on one end and hydrophobic on
by convolvatron 4y ago
my hazy memory is that it is/was assumed that the cell wall arose pretty naturally from an asymmetric protein that was hydrophilic on one end and hydrophobic on the other.
- monkeycantype 4y agoThe hydrothermal vent as a spongey matrix of cell membrane precursors is one theory for this. The thing I like about this idea is that the idea of a boundary exists before membranes, and fit with the idea of the boundary being ‘found’