Life from an RNA World

The Ancestor Within

Michael Yarus

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$23.00 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674060715

Publication Date: 03/18/2011

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208 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

13 line illustrations

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Introduction to Your Ancestor
1. Before We Begin: A Voluntary Chapter
2. Framing the Problem: The Buffalo and the Bacterium
3. The Big Tree: No Jackalopes Please
4. A Dance of Atoms
5. Allegro Agitato: The Origin of Life
6. The Winds That Blow through the Starry Ways
7. Tornados in a Junkyard
8. Between Genomes and Creatures
9. A Thumbnail Molecular Biology
10. RNA Structure: A Tape with a Shape
11. Intimations of an RNA World
12. The Experimentally Impaired Sciences
13. Test Tube RNA Evolution: First Light
14. Selection Amplification: Interrogating RNA’s Possibilities
15. RNA Duplication: Replicase Activity in Real RNAs
16. RNA Capabilities and the Origins of Translation
17. The Quest for the Peptidyl Transferase
18. A Language Much Older Than Hieroglyphics: The Genetic Code
19. Assume a Spherical Cow: The Ribocyte
20. The Future of the RNA World
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