The Role of Templating in the Emergence of RNA from the Prebiotic Chemical Mixture
Biological RNA is a uniform polymer in three senses: it uses nucleotides of a single chirality; it uses only ribose sugars and four nucleobases rather than a mixture of other sugars and bases; and it uses only 3′-5′ bonds rather than a mixture of different bond types. We suppose that prebiotic chemi...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Life |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/7/4/41 |