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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pubmed-22115482008-01-23 The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth Orgel, Leslie E Essay 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. Public Library of Science 2008-01 2008-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2211548/ /pubmed/18215113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060018 Text en © 2008 Leslie E. Orgel. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
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The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth |
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The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth |
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The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth |
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The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth |
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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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