My thought was that if you just intentionally dumped the working components into the relevant areas, you would get a cell in short order - i.e. there's a combin

My thought was that if you just intentionally dumped the working components into the relevant areas, you would get a cell in short order - i.e. there's a combination of RNAzymes which must've existed on the transition from RNA-world to proteins, to DNA coding. Basically: evolution trial and error'd, but it stands to reason that we could just sit there injecting the next step which worked each time.