Astrobiology

Chemical evolution - proteins or RNA first?

by Horst Rauchfuss (University of Dortmund, now in Varberg, Sweden)

Europe/Stockholm
Nordita Seminar Room

Nordita Seminar Room

Description
The important question wheather information molecules (like RNA or similar compounds) or operational molecules (like proteins) were first in the "origin of life process" is not resolved. Theories and experiments concerning the "protein-first-problem" will be discussed.
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