• DOI:10.1023/A:1024616317965
Corpus ID: 32779859

Some Consequences of the RNA World Hypothesis

@article{Orgel2004SomeCO,
  title={Some Consequences of the RNA World Hypothesis},
  author={L. Orgel},
  journal={Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere},
  year={2004},
  volume={33},
  pages={211-218}
}

L. Orgel

Published 2004

Medicine, Biology

Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere

It is now generally accepted that our familiar biological worldwas preceded by an RNA world in which ribosome-catalyzed, nucleic-acid coded protein synthesis played no part. If the RNAworld was the first biological world there is little that one canlearn from biochemistry about prebiotic chemistry, except that the formation and polymerization of nucleotides were once prebiotic processes. If the RNA world was not the first biological world, the above conclusion may not be justified, andone can… CONTINUE READING

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