The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth
Open Access
- 22 January 2008
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 6 (1) , e18
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060018
Abstract
It has been suggested that complex reaction cycles, analogous to metabolic cycles, operated on the primitive Earth prior to the origin of genetic systems, but severe difficulties arise when these proposals are scrutinized from the standpoint of chemical plausibility.Keywords
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