Article
RNA based evolutionary optimization.
Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life - 1 Dec 1993
Schuster P
Abstract excerpt
The notion of an RNA world has been introduced for a prebiotic scenario that is dominated by RNA molecules and their properties, in particular their capabilities to act as templates for reproduction and as catalysts for several cleavage and ligation reactions of polynucleotides and polypeptides. This notion is used here also for simple experimental assays which are well suited to study evolution in the test tube....
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Environment
- Genotype
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Molecular Structure
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Origin of Life
- Phenotype