Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Menor-Salván, César (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 35
• Subjects: Nucleic acids.; Microbiology.; Evolutionary biology.; Nucleic Acid Chemistry.; Applied Microbiology.; Evolutionary Biology.

The origin of life is one of the biggest unsolved scientific questions. This book deals with the formation and first steps of the chemical evolution of nucleic acids, including the chemical roots behind the origin of their components from the simplest sources in a geochemical context. Chemical evolu...