Interpretation of Chemical Environments by RNA and the Implications to the Origins of Life

We describe the initial realization of behavior in the biosphere, which we term behavioral chemistry. If molecules are complex enough to attain a stochastic element to their structural conformation in such a way as to radically affect their function in a biological (evolvable) setting, then they hav...

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Main Author: Larson, Brian
Format: Others
Published: PDXScholar 2014
Subjects:
RNA
Online Access:https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1705
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2704&context=open_access_etds