the ancestor within Yarus, Michael 1940- creator text bibliography mau Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press 2010 monographic eng

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x, 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. 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. Michael Yarus. Includes bibliographical references and index. RNA Evolution, Molecular Molecular Biology RNA Molecular biology QP623 .Y367 2010 572.88 QU 58.7 Y29L 2010 9780674050754 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780674060715 0674050754 (cloth : alk. paper) 2009044011 DLC 091104 20150408114009.0 15972875