Starting from formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide, ethene and water as needed, speculate how the sugar glucose, the amino acid aspartic acid, and the nucleobase adenine may have formed prebiotically, using the chemical structure for each compound and a balanced reaction equation between them.

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Chapter3: The Chemistry Of Life: Organic Compounds
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Problem 12TYU: PREDICT Do any of the amino acid side groups shown below have the potential to form an ionic bond...
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Starting from formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide, ethene and water as needed, speculate how the sugar glucose, the amino acid aspartic acid, and the nucleobase adenine may have formed prebiotically, using the chemical structure for each compound and a balanced reaction equation between them. 

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