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Copolyamino acid fractionation and protobiochemistryInvestigation of the origins of living things by the uniquely appropriate method of successive approximation in attempted retracement of steps in molecular evolution has yielded: a comprehensive theoretical flowsheet from archaic inanimate matter to an infrastructured, microscopic, protoreproductive, protometabolic protocell; a laboratory model of the same; and an explanatory assessment of the natural variation component of Darwinian evolution. For each of these, the significance is dependent upon awareness of the intrinsic tendency of amino acids, in mixed sets, to order themselves. Without such awareness, it is believed these vistas would have been delayed for decades. Selfordering would have in turn been difficult to recognize and support were it not for the chromatographic developments in fractionation of copolyamino acids.
Document ID
19820043054
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Fox, S. W.
(Miami, University Coral Gables, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1981
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Chromatography
Volume: 215
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Accession Number
82A26589
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGR-10-007-008
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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