Prebiotic evolution and astrobiology. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] J. Tze-Fei Wong, Antonio Lazcano.
• Other Names: Wong, J. Tze-Fei (Jeffrey Tze-Fei), 1937-; Lazcano-Araujo, Antonio
• Contents: The minimal cell / Markus Pech and Knud H. Nierhaus -- Planetary astrobiology : the outer solar system / François Raulin -- Mars, the astrobiological target of the 21st century? / Patrice Coll and Fabien Stalport -- Comets and astrobiology / Hervé Cottin and Didier Despois -- Meteorites and the chemistry that preceded life's origin / Sandra Pizzarello -- Chirality, homochirality and the order of biomolecular interactions / Sandra Pizzarello -- The primitive Earth / James F. Kasting -- Biomolecules / J. Tze-Fei Wong -- The dawn of the RNA world : RNA polymerization from monoribonucleotides under prebiotically plausible conditions / Pierre-Alain Monnard -- Ribozymes and the evolution of metabolism / Randall A. Hughes and Andrew D. Ellington -- Precellular evolution : vesicles and protocells / Pasquale Stano and Pier Luigi Luisi -- Split genes, ancestral genes / Massimo Di Giulio -- Genetic code / J. Tze-Fei Wong -- Root of life / J. Tze-Fei Wong.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (158 pages), (102 illustrations)
• Subjects: 576.8/3; Life -- Origin; Exobiology; Biomolecules; RNA; Interstellar matter; Biomolecules; Exobiology; Interstellar matter; Life -- Origin; RNA; Evolution, Molecular; Exobiology; Origin of Life; RNA -- genetics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498713986
• Related ISBNs: 149871398X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.