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Prebiotic Evolution and Astrobiology
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With the accelerating pace of genomic analysis and space exploration, the field of prebiotic evolution and astrobiology is poised for a century of unprecedented advances ahead, and there is a need for textbooks for students. The authors of this book, aware of the difficulty of covering the multifaceted subject by any single author, have decided to
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Minimal Cell
- 3. Planetary AstrobiologyāThe Outer Solar System
- 4. Mars, the Astrobiological Target of the 21st Century?
- 5. Comets and Astrobiology
- 6. Meteorites and the Chemistry That Preceded Lifeās Origin
- 7. Chirality, Homochirality and the Order of Biomolecular Interactions
- 8. The Primitive Earth
- 9. Biomolecules
- 10. The Dawn of the RNA World: RNA Polymerization from Monoribonucleotides under Prebiotically Plausible Conditions
- 11. Ribozymes and the Evolution of Metabolism
- 12. Precellular Evolution: Vesicles and Protocells
- 13. Split Genes, Ancestral Genes
- 14. Genetic Code
- 15. Root of Life
- Index