Homochirality in life: Two equal runners, one tripped

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-118

  Green, Mark M ^a   Jain, Vipul ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Origin of biological homochirality; Origin of life; Polymers; Racemic homochiral life

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMAGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; ORIGIN OF LIFE; POLYMER; SURVIVAL;

ELAGATIS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; POLYMERS; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77949393848     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-009-9180-7     Document Type: Article

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