Defined folding pattern of poly(rG) supports inherent ability to encode biological information
Biopolymers, Volume 115, Issue 6, November 2024.Abstract The RNA World hypothesis posits that RNA can represent a primitive life form by reproducing itself and demonstrating catalytic activity. However, this hypothesis is incapable of addressing several major origin‐of‐life (OoL) questions. A recently described paradox‐free alternative OoL hypothesis, the Quadruplex (G4) World, is based on the ...
Nickolas Kankia +4 more
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Rethinking Abiogenesis: Part 1, Continuity of Life through Time
, 2020 Evolution teaches that any particular organism, population, or species is a point on a continuous lineage that extends back to life’s origins. Apparent discontinuities (for example, species) often reflect subjective, human decisions as much or more ...
Freeland, Stephen +2 more
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Endosymbiotic Actinidic Archaea and Viroids -- A Model for Abiogenesis and Viral, Prokaryote, Eukaryotic, Primate and Human Evolution [PDF]
, 2012 Aim: A hypothesis regarding endosymbiotic actinidic archaea as having evolved from isoprenoid organisms by abiogenesis is presented in this paper. An actinidc archaea/ viroid mediated model of prokaryote, viral, eukaryotic, primate and human evolution is
A., Ravikumar Kurup +1 more
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The Conditional Abiogenesis Problem Part III
**Description** Part III of *The Conditional Abiogenesis Problem* examines whether the conditions developed in Parts I and II remain physically coherent when traced from system-level viability down toward quantum dynamics, chemical kinetics, transport ...
Rudolf Schaefer
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Information Theory of Abiogenesis
Information Theory of Abiogenesis: Life's origin is a mystery. Science may never note for sure how life originated. However, engineering MAY create life.
Ohnemus, Alexander
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Subsumed complexity: abiogenesis as a by-product of complex energy transduction
, 2017 The origins of life bring into stark relief the inadequacy of our current synthesis of thermodynamic, chemical, physical and information theory to predict the conditions under which complex, living states of organic matter can arise. Origins
Z. R. Adam +3 more
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Liquid–liquid phase separation as a driver of abiogenesis and evolution
Academia Molecular Biology and GenomicsThe origin of life may have emerged through physical mechanisms that enable molecular organization and self-assembly. Building on Alexander Oparin’s concept of coacervate droplets, liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) offers a plausible route
Jessie J. Grazier, Paul W. Sylvester
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The FC Threshold: Abiogenesis as Chemistry Finding a Thermodynamic Attractor [PDF]
The standard abiogenesis question asks which chemical pathways produced the first self-replicating system. This paper argues that this question, while necessary, is not sufficient — because the threshold it is trying to locate is ...
Mansouri, Daniel
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A Cholesterol and Actinide Dependent Shadow Biosphere of Archaea and Viroids Indicating Cholesterol Based Abiogenesis- Evolution of the Biological Universe [PDF]
, 2011 AimEndomyocardial fibrosis along with the root wilt disease of coconut is endemic to Kerala with its radioactive actinide beach sands. Actinides like rutile, endogenous digoxin as well as organisms like phytoplasmas and viroids have been implicated in ...
Kurup, Parameswara Achutha +1 more
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Conditional Abiogenesis Problem
The origin of life is frequently discussed as a sequence of chemical reactions, an increase in molecular complexity, or a thermodynamic outcome of driven disequilibrium.
Rudolf Schaefer
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