The emergence of the non-cellular phase of life on the fine-grained clayish particles of the early Earth's regolith
Abstract
A scenario of the origin of the very first ribonucleoproteinoid virus-like complexes, which is based on their synthesis in the interlaminar spaces of clayish grain regolith of the primitive Earth, about 4 billion years ago when water in the form of liquid drops first appeared. The proposed model explains the origin of chirality of modern biopolymers as a result of preferential adsorption of biomonomers on such grains.
- Publication:
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BioSystems
- Pub Date:
- 1997
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1997BiSys..42..111N
- Keywords:
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- Origin of life;
- Soliton impulse;
- Emergence;
- Regolith;
- Clays;
- Nanoreactors