Origin and Evolution of Life. Electric discharges can generate organic molecules.

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Origin and Evolution of Life

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Origin and Evolution of Life

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Electric discharges can generate organic molecules

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The Murchisonmeteorite containsorganic moleculese.g. D- and L-amino acids

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Ribozymes and introns may be relics of an RNA world

Peptide bond formation in ribosomes

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Directed evolution:Artificial RNAs can polymerize ribonucleotides in vitro

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Primordial replicases:RNAs may catalyze its own replication

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A putative RNA replicase cycle

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No Darwinian evolution outside of compartments

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Compartmentalization may lead to accumulationof improved RNA replicases

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A synthetic minimal genome

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Living bacteria that harbor a synthetic minimal genome