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This theory is called RNA-peptide coevolution, [114] or the Peptide-RNA world, and offers a possible explanation for the rapid evolution of high-quality replication in RNA (since proteins are catalysts), with the disadvantage of having to postulate the coincident formation of two complex molecules, an enzyme (from peptides) and a RNA (from ...
Woese's dogma is a principle of evolutionary biology first put forth by biophysicist Carl Woese in 1977. It states that the evolution of ribosomal RNA was a necessary precursor to the evolution of modern life forms. [1]
RNA-based evolution is a theory that posits that RNA is not merely an intermediate between Watson and Crick model of the DNA molecule and proteins, but rather a far more dynamic and independent role-player in determining phenotype.
This concept is known as the RNA world hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, the ancient RNA world transitioned into the modern cellular world via the evolution of protein synthesis, followed by replacement of many cellular ribozyme catalysts by protein-based enzymes.
The RNA world hypothesis describes an early Earth with self-replicating and catalytic RNA but no DNA or proteins. [172] Many researchers concur that an RNA world must have preceded the DNA-based life that now dominates. [173] However, RNA-based life may not have been the first to exist.
According to Axe, the research he provides with his book disproves Darwin's theory of evolution, revealing "a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning." Click through 10 books that ...
A "cowardly" boy racer who fled and left his 15-year-old friend dying in the wreckage of a crashed car has been detained. Billy Conroy was 16 when he crashed a Mazda6 in Newcastle while fleeing ...
Carl Richard Woese (/ w oʊ z / WOHZ; [3] July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist.Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique that has revolutionized microbiology.