Isn't it a bit early to call it "originally organic matrix "?
Are you claiming it was originally inorganic?
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There have to have been other factors at playcells are full of enzymes that trigger a very thorough self-destruct sequence at death
Other factors, like it wasn't millions of years old after all, I think.
Unless death was caused or accompanied by a drastic change in temperature or salinity, in which case those enzymes would be rendered non-functional.