28 julio 2015
One question of the origin of life in particular remains problematic: what enabled the leap from a primordial soup of individual monomers to self-replicating polymer chains? A new model proposes a potential mechanism by which self-replication could have emerged. It posits that template-assisted ligation, the joining of two polymers by using a third, longer one as a template, could have enabled polymers to become self-replicating.img src=»http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/7cwWoRoqZ0o» height=»1″ width=»1″ alt=»»/
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