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Evolution of replication machines.
Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2000
Yao Nina Y, O'Donnell Mike E
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The machines that decode and regulate genetic information require the translation, transcription and replication pathways essential to all living cells. Thus, it might be expected that all cells share the same basic machinery for these pathways that were inherited from the primordial ancestor cell from which they evolved. A clear example of this is found in the translation machinery that converts RNA sequence to...
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