02054cam a2200373 a 4500 15972875 OSt 20150408114009.0 091104s2010 maua b 001 0 eng 2009044011 GBB011874 bnb 015478833 Uk 9780674050754 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780674060715 0674050754 (cloth : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn456170067 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UKM C#P BWX CDX LGG GEBAY DLC QP623 .Y367 2010 QU 58.7 Y29L 2010 572.88 22 Yarus, Michael, 1940- 9819 Life from an RNA world : the ancestor within / Michael Yarus. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010. 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. RNA. 9820 Evolution, Molecular. 9821 Molecular Biology. 6621 RNA. 9822 Molecular biology. 6621 ddc BOOK 20950 255450 0 2013-03-10 0 0 572.88 Y M L 2012-04-10 EMF 00076331 EMF 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 572.88 Y M L 2012-04-10 EMF 00076330 EMF 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 572.88 Y M L 2012-04-10 EMF 00076327 EMF 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 572.88 Y M L 2012-04-10 EMF 00076326 EMF 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0