Verification of chemical evolution of RNA under hydrothermal environments on the primitive Earth
The RNA World hypothesis proposes that primitive forms of life used polymers resembling RNA both as catalysts and as carriers of genetic information. It has also been suggested that the origin of life occurred in hydrothermal conditions, but this implies that the ester bonds of nucleic acids are suf...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2015-01-01
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| Series: | BIO Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20150400011 |