Chapter 3: Macromolecules and the RNA World

This is a list of the journal citations for the scientific research discussed in Chapter 3. Links to the main pages of the journals have been provided to help you research these or related articles.

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Bar-Nun, A. and X. Chang (1983). "Photochemical reactions of water and carbon monoxide in Earth's primitive atmosphere." Journal of Geophysical Research 88: 6662-6672.

Bartel, D. P. and J. W. Szostak (1993). "Isolation of new ribozymes from a large pool of random sequences." Science 261: 1411-1418.

Cech, T. R. (1986). "RNA as an enzyme." Scientific American 255: 64-75.

Ferris, J. P., A. R. Hill, Jr., et al. (1996). "Synthesis of long prebiotic oligomers on mineral surfaces." Nature 381: 59-61.

Haldane, J. B. S. (1949). "Suggestions as the quantitative measurement of rates of evolution." Evolution 3: 51-56.

Huber, C. and G. Wächtershäuser (1997). "Activated acetic acid by carbon fixation on (Fe,Ni)S under primordial conditions." Science 276: 245-247.

Miller, S. L. (1953). "A production of amino acids under possible primitive Earth conditions." Science 117: 528-529.

Watson, J. D. and F. H. C. Crick (1953). "Molecular structure of nucleic acids." Nature 171: 737-738.