Life from an RNA world : the ancestor within / Michael Yarus.

Author/creator Yarus, Michael, 1940-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Descriptionx, 198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction to your ancestor -- Before we begin : a voluntary chapter -- Framing the problem : the buffalo and the bacterium -- The big tree : no jackalopes please -- A dance of atoms -- Allegro agitato : the origin of life -- The winds that blow through the starry ways -- Tornados in a junkyard -- Between genomes and creatures -- A thumbnail molecular biology -- RNA structure : a tape with a shape -- Intimations of an RNA world -- The experimentally impaired sciences -- Test tube RNA evolution : first light -- Selection amplification : interrogating RNA's possibilities -- RNA duplication : replicase activity in real RNAs -- RNA capabilities and the origins of translation -- The quest for the peptidyl transferase -- A language much older than hieroglyphics : the genetic code -- Assume a spherical cow : the ribocyte -- The future of the RNA world.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009044011
ISBN9780674050754 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780674060715 (pbk.)
ISBN0674050754 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0674060717 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QP623 .Y367 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold