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Yarus, Michael, 1940-

Life from an RNA world : the ancestor within / Michael Yarus. - x, 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before we begin : a voluntary chapter -- Framing the problem : the buffalo and the bacterium -- The big tree : no jackalopes please -- A dance of atoms -- Allegro agitato : the origin of life -- The winds that blow through the starry ways -- Tornados in a junkyard -- Between genomes and creatures -- A thumbnail molecular biology -- RNA structure : a tape with a shape -- Intimations of an RNA world -- The experimentally impaired sciences -- Test tube RNA evolution : first light -- Selection amplification : interrogating RNA's possibilities -- RNA duplication : replicase activity in real RNAs -- RNA capabilities and the origins of translation -- The quest for the peptidyl transferase -- A language much older than hieroglyphics : the genetic code -- Assume a spherical cow : the ribocyte -- The future of the RNA world.

ISBN: 9780674050754 (cloth : alk. paper) 0674050754 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009044011

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB011874 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015478833 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
RNA.
Evolution, Molecular.
Molecular Biology.
RNA.
Molecular biology.

LC Class. No.: QP623 / .Y367 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 572.8/8

National Library of Medicine Call No.: QU 58.7 / Y29L 2010