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The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

It has been suggested that complex reaction cycles, analogous to metabolic cycles, operated on the primitive Earth prior to the origin of genetic systems, but severe difficulties arise when these proposals are scrutinized from the standpoint of chemical plausibility.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Orgel, Leslie E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18215113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060018
Descripción
Sumario:It has been suggested that complex reaction cycles, analogous to metabolic cycles, operated on the primitive Earth prior to the origin of genetic systems, but severe difficulties arise when these proposals are scrutinized from the standpoint of chemical plausibility.