The Origin of Life in Fire and Ice.

The Origin of Life in Fire and Ice.

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

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