TY - BOOK AU - Yarus,Michael TI - Life from an RNA world: the ancestor within SN - 9780674050754 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QP623 .Y367 2010 U1 - 572.8/8 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - RNA KW - Evolution, Molecular KW - Molecular Biology KW - Molecular biology N1 - 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 ER -