> (And yes, the enzymes I refer to could be realized as RNA, but acting as the enzymes directly, not merely describing them, and this would confer some major be

> (And yes, the enzymes I refer to could be realized as RNA, but acting as the enzymes directly, not merely describing them, and this would confer some major benefits) Isn’t the standard model that chemical complexes of increasing sophistication formed around volcanic vents until the molecules involved looked like viroids or other ribozymes? Then there’s an evolutionary fork, where the RNA moves towards DNA for storage and proteins for work, but the relationship remains mediated by RNA, eg in mitochondria.