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Two-dimensional life?A model [Wachtershauser, G. (1988) Microbiol. Rev. 52, 452-484], according to which life started in the form of a monomolecular layer of interacting anionic metabolites electrostatically bound to a positively charged surface, is examined critically. The model raises a number of thermodynamic and kinetic difficulties.
Document ID
20040090026
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
de Duve, C.
(The Rockefeller University New York 10021, United States)
Miller, S. L.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume: 88
ISSN: 0027-8424
Subject Category
Exobiology
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-20
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Discipline Number 52-20
NASA Program Exobiology
NASA Discipline Exobiology
Non-NASA Center

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