It has been proposed that the first cells used RNA for both information storage and catalysis and that DNA and proteins evolved later. Which modern macromolecules may be relics of the hypothesized RNA world?

A. RNA polymerase
B. ribosome
C. spliceosome
D. sigma factor


Ans:
B. ribosome
C. spliceosome

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