ChristianKl comments on Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 23 February 2016 11:25:38AM 0 points [-]

Organisms that reproduce, metabolize energy, and create a cell wall, require at least a hundred proteins, each of which has approximately 300 amino acids, and all need to be able to work with each other.

In reality of course they don't need any proteins and it's quite possible that the first cells were simply RNA based.