A Polyaddition Model for the Prebiotic Polymerization of RNA and RNA-Like Polymers

Implicit in the RNA world hypothesis is that prebiotic RNA synthesis, despite occurring in an environment without biochemical catalysts, produced the long RNA polymers which are essential to the formation of life. In order to investigate the prebiotic formation of long RNA polymers, we consider a ge...

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Main Authors: Alex Spaeth, Mason Hargrave
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
Series:Life
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/2/12