Why was the origin of genetic material important to the origin of life on earth?

There is no origin of life without the origin of genetic material. Even the simplest organisms that have been found, and every organism that exists, requires a full complement of genetic material in order to function.

For the simplest organisms known, this amounts to 600-900 genetic products, consisting of various multiples of 5 primary types of nucleotides that add up to over 1 million sets of: a sugar (deoxyribose), and the bases cytosine (C), thymine (T), adenine (A), guanine (G), and a phosphate.

There is additionally a large number of proteins required to construct, organize, encapsulate and functionally operate the organism's required functions.

The result is without all this genetic material there is no reproductive, metabolic, function cell-based organism possible.

The real irony is that there are no natural processes or forces in existence to create these relatively simple genetic molecules, organize them, code them on multiple levels and generate all of the organism's functions.

a fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.[1] the age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years.[2] fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include petroleum, coal, and natural gas.[3] other commonly used derivatives include kerosene and propane. fossil fuels range from volatile materials with low carbon to hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquids like petroleum, to nonvolatile materials composed of almost pure carbon, like anthracite coal. methane can be found in hydrocarbon fields either alone, associated with oil, or in the form of methane clathrates.

the theory that fossil fuels formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over millions of years was first introduced by andreas libavius "in his 1597 alchemia [alchymia]" and later by mikhail lomonosov "as early as 1757 and certainly by 1763".[4] the first use of the term "fossil fuel" was by the german chemist caspar neumann, in english translation in 1759.[5]

in 2017 the world's primary energy sources consisted of petroleum (34%), coal (28%), natural gas (23%), amounting to an 85% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world.[6] non-fossil sources in 2006 included nuclear (8.5%), hydroelectric (6.3%), and others (geothermal, solar, tidal, wind, wood, waste) amounting to 0.9%.[7] world energy consumption was growing at about 2.3% per year. in 2015 about 18% of worldwide consumption was from renewable sources.[8]