160 Pages
102 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
158 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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 combine their efforts to provide a suitable book... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction2. The Minimal Cell 3. Planetary Astrobiology—The Outer Solar System 4. Mars, the Astrobiological Target of the 21st Century? 5. Comets and Astrobiology 6. Meteorites and the Chemistry That Preceded Life’s 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
Biography
J. Tze-Fei Wong, PhD, Applied Genomics Center, Fok Ying Tung Graduate School and Department of Biochemistry, Hong Kong Universiry of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China. Antonio Lazcano, PhD, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
