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The replicator in virtually all known life is deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is far more complex than the original
replicator and its replication systems are highly elaborate.
Research in 2003 reported that montmorillonite could also accelerate the conversion of fatty
acids into "bubbles", and that the bubbles could encapsulate RNA attached to the clay. Bubbles
can then grow by absorbing additional lipids and dividing. The formation of the earliest cells may
have been aided by