Intermolecular Enzymatic Encoding of Nucleic Acid, Steroid Complexes: A New Theory on the Chemical Origin of Life Based on Evidence of Structural Symmetry

Abstract

The origin of life is one of the greatest mysteries. The mechanism for the synthesis of DNA is synonymous with the chemical origin of life, and theories have been developed along many lines of reasoning, but resolving all requirements remains a challenge, such as defining an objective path to produce sequences of encoded nucleotides paired as adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine. Here, a new theory for the origin of DNA is presented. The theory is based upon three lines of experimental evidence and agreement of structural symmetry between DNA nucleotides and steroid hormones, and introduces a new concept of synthesizing both structural and functional characteristics of DNA at the same time within a single unified complex of interleaved tetra-ringed structures, steroid molecules which form reaction vessels that serve as co-enzymatic building blocks. The new theory indicates that the establishment of the DNA nucleotide code is among the very first synthesis steps. Moreover, as a consequence of the intermolecular synthesis of both structural and functional characteristics within a unified complex, there is a culminating process step that sets forth in motion both DNA and the steroid structures that subsequently trigger replication and transcription, as well as protein translation, thereby resulting in the instantaneous release of life function.