The cold origin of life: B. Implications based on pyrimidines and purines produced from frozen ammonium cyanide solutions

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-218

  Miyakawa, Shin ^a   Cleaves, H James ^b   Miller, Stanley L ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative base; Ammonium cyanide; Chemical evolution; Cold origin of life; Eutectic concentration; Nucleic acid base; Purine; Pyrimidine

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; EARLY EARTH; FREEZING; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

BIOGENESIS; COLD; CYANIDES; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; SOLUTIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

CYANIDE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; COLD; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0036591543     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019514022822     Document Type: Article

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