Photon Dissipation as the Origin of Information Encoding in RNA and DNA

Ultraviolet light incident on organic material can initiate its spontaneous dissipative structuring into chromophores which can catalyze their own replication. This may have been the case for one of the most ancient of all chromophores dissipating the Archean UVC photon flux, the nucleic acids. Olig...

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Main Authors: Julián Mejía Morales, Karo Michaelian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/9/940