| Description |
1 online resource (146 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
The minimal cell / Markus Pech and Knud H. Nierhaus -- Planetary astrobiology : the outer solar system / François Raulin -- Mars, the astrobiological target of the 21st century? / Patrice Coll and Fabien Stalport -- Comets and astrobiology / Hervé Cottin and Didier Despois -- Meteorites and the chemistry that preceded life's origin / Sandra Pizzarello -- Chirality, homochirality and the order of biomolecular interactions / Sandra Pizzarello -- The primitive Earth / James F. Kasting -- Biomolecules / J. Tze-Fei Wong -- The dawn of the RNA world : RNA polymerization from monoribonucleotides under prebiotically plausible conditions / Pierre-Alain Monnard -- Ribozymes and the evolution of metabolism / Randall A. Hughes and Andrew D. Ellington -- Precellular evolution : vesicles and protocells / Pasquale Stano and Pier Luigi Luisi -- Split genes, ancestral genes / Massimo Di Giulio -- Genetic code / J. Tze-Fei Wong -- Root of life / J. Tze-Fei Wong |
| Summary |
With the accelerating pace of genomic analysis and space exploration, the field of prebiotic evolution and astrobiology is poised for a century of unprecedented advances ahead, and there is a need for textbooks for students. The authors of this book, aware of the difficulty of covering the multifaceted subject by any single author, have decided to combine their efforts to provide a suitable book for beginning students from varied disciplines. The book stemmed from a meeting on Basic Questions about the Origin of Life at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Life -- Origin.
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Exobiology.
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Biomolecules.
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RNA.
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Interstellar matter.
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Molecular evolution.
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Evolution, Molecular
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RNA
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Biogenesis
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Exobiology
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RNA -- genetics
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Origin of Life
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Molecular evolution
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Biomolecules
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Exobiology
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Interstellar matter
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Life -- Origin
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RNA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wong, J. Tze-Fei (Jeffrey Tze-Fei), 1937-
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Lazcano-Araujo, Antonio.
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| ISBN |
9781441615596 |
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1441615598 |
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9781433711749 |
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1433711745 |
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9781587064135 |
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1587064138 |
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