The Origin of Life in Fire and Ice.

• Author: Clements, Peter R.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Bentham Science Publishers,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (113 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- End User License Agreement -- Contents -- Preface -- SOLAR SYSTEM NEIGHBOURS -- Why Does Earth Support Life while other Planets in our Solar System Do Not? The Goldilocks Principle -- Life on Earth, Running the Program Backwards -- Fossils of the Earliest Life -- Bacteria and Archaea -- Archaea -- Oxygen and Complex Organisms -- Last Universal Common Ancestor -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Endorsement -- Abstract -- Early Chemical Developments on a Young Planet -- THE LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR -- STEPS LEADING UP TO THE LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR -- DELIVERY OF WATER AND ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TO THE COOLING EARTH -- An Explanation for the Observed Hydrogen Isotope Ratio -- Stanley Miller's Experiments -- THE INGREDIENTS: DELIVERY OF WATER AND ORGANICS TO THE COOLING EARTH -- CONCLUSION -- Order From Chaos: Formation of Vesicles and their Contents -- NOW THAT WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A PROBABLE SOURCE OF INGREDIENTS, HOW DID THIS BEGIN TO TAKE SHAPE AS LIFE? -- THE PREBIOTIC ERA AND MOLECULAR PALAEONTOLOGY -- EARLY OBSERVATIONS THAT LED TO THE RNA WORLD HYPOTHESIS -- MOLECULES CAPABLE OF SELF-ASSEMBLY: MORE ORDER FROM CHAOS -- SELF-ORGANIZATION -- CLAY TEMPLATES FOR POLYMER FORMATION -- FORMATION OF VESICLES IN FIRE AND ICE -- BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA -- Archaea -- ARCHAEA MEMBRANES -- FORMATION OF VESICLES IN FIRE AND ICE -- CONCLUSION -- Plate Tectonics that Generate the Fire -- DEEP VENTS VS. HOT SPRINGS -- CONCLUSION -- Formation of Peptides, Nucleotides and RNA -- SELF-REPRODUCTION BY LIMITED PEPTIDES -- NUCLEOTIDES -- THE RNA MOLECULE -- IN MODERN BIOCHEMISTRY, THERE ARE SEVERAL FORMS OF RNA WITHIN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, EACH OF WHICH HAS A DIFFERENT SHAPE AND FUNCTION. -- RIBOZYMES AND THE RNA WORLD -- THE RNA WORLD -- PRODUCTION OF RIBOZYMES -- THE RNA-PEPTIDE WORLD.

PRIMITIVE SELECTION OF THE FITTEST EMERGING THROUGH FUNCTIONAL SYNERGY IN NUCLEOPEPTIDE NETWORKS -- CONCLUSION -- Development of the Genetic Code -- [Collective Evolution and the Genetic Code] -- Collective Evolution and the Genetic Code -- PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction -- NUCLEOPROTEIN NETWORKS -- BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR LIFE -- The Origin and Evolution of Viruses as Molecular Organisms October 2009 Nature Precedings 4TY - -- THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION -- WHAT SET UP THE CONDITIONS FOR LIFE TO ARISE? -- A Study of the Interaction of Glycine and its Oligohomopeptides with Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions -- CONCLUSION -- Sense-Antisense Peptide Recognition, Peptides and Protein Folding -- PROTEIN FOLDING -- The Folding Problem -- IS THERE A PLACE FOR ANTISENSE IN EVOLUTION? -- Implications for Modern Biochemistry -- CONCLUSION -- Summary of the Stages of the Process Toward the Origin of Life -- STAGE 1 -- STAGE 2 -- STAGE 3 -- Appendix -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Subject Index -- Back Cover.