Emergence of template-and-sequence-directed (TSD) syntheses: II. A computer simulation model

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 567-584

  Nir, Shlomo ^a   Lahav, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PEPTIDE; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA TEMPLATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALGORITHMS; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDES; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031292295     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006556520270     Document Type: Article

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