Life from an RNA world
Subtitle: the ancestor within
By: Michael Yarus.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674050754
Subjects: RNA; Molecular biology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before we begin : a voluntary chapter; title: Framing the problem : the buffalo and the bacterium; title: The big tree : no jackalopes please; title: A dance of atoms; title: Allegro agitato : the origin of life; title: The winds that blow through the starry ways; title: Tornados in a junkyard; title: Between genomes and creatures; title: A thumbnail molecular biology; title: RNA structure : a tape with a shape; title: Intimations of an rna world; title: The experimentally impaired sciences; title: Test tube RNA evolution : first light; title: Selection amplification : interrogating rna's possibilities; title: Rna duplication : replicase activity in real rnas; title: RNA capabilities and the origins of translation; title: The quest for the peptidyl transferase; title: A language much older than hieroglyphics : the genetic code; title: Assume a spherical cow : the ribocyte; title: The future of the rna world.