The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth
It has been suggested that complex reaction cycles, analogous to metabolic cycles, operated on the primitive Earth prior to the origin of genetic systems, but severe difficulties arise when these proposals are scrutinized from the standpoint of chemical plausibility.
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2008
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211548/ |