not really, any structure that can absorb energy and replicate could initiate life. nucleotides spontaneously form, then start to bind to each other in chains.

not really, any structure that can absorb energy and replicate could initiate life. nucleotides spontaneously form, then start to bind to each other in chains. Those chains spontaneously fall apart and reform. amino acids start to bind to the nucleotide chains and cause them to be more stable. Nucleotide chains bound to the amino acids have a longer life expectancy than those not bound to amino acids. The amino acids start to bind to each other (they naturally do). The RNA binding makes them slightly more energy efficient essentially catalyzing the reaction. over millions or billions of years, random chaining of nucleotides leads to random chaining of proteins that are slightly more energy efficient. Those forms "outcompete" alternate forms. Once a particular type of amino acid chain exists, it can influence other amino acid chains to follow the same structure. For example prions are extremely short but binding to normally folded versions of the protein causes the normal version to change patterns.