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Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials
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“The basic constituents of RNA molecules, such as D-ribose, phosphate, and the four bases—adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and uracil (U), along with unused nucleotides, were delivered to the hydrothermal crater lake by meteorites [2,3,4].”
From The Origin of Prebiotic Information System in the Peptide/RNA World: A Simulation Model of the Evolution of Translation and the Genetic Code (2019) · cites this paper as [2]
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Chatterjee, S., & Yadav, S. (2019) · Life · doi:10.3390/life9010025 · Cited by 80
Metadata
- Authors
- Bernstein, M. P., Sandford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J.
- Venue
- Scientific American
- Published
- 1999-07
- Volume
- 281
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 42-49
- ISSN
- 0036-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2068932738
- Cited by
- 60
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 6.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Scientific American (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Keywords
- raw materials, natural resources, mineral resources
- MeSH terms
- Origin of Life, Extraterrestrial Environment, Hydrocarbons, Ice, Spacecraft, Earth, Planet, Minor Planets, Exobiology, Meteoroids, Evolution, Chemical, Cosmic Dust
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- Bernstein, M. P., Sandford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J. (1999). Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials. Scientific American. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0799-42
