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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4913-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4913-2015
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Research article
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19 Aug 2015
Research article |
| 19 Aug 2015
Fundamental molecules of life are pigments which arose and co-evolved as a response to the thermodynamic imperative of dissipating the prevailing solar spectrum
Instituto de Física, UNAM, Circuito Interior de la Investigación Científica, Cuidad Universitaria, México D.F., C.P. 04510, Mexico
Independent researcher, Bigla str. 7, Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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- Homochirality through Photon-Induced Denaturing of RNA/DNA at the Origin of Life K. Michaelian
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- An irreversible thermodynamic model of prebiological dissipative molecular structures inside vacuoles at the surface of the Archean Ocean J. Montemayor-Aldrete et al.
- Comment on “Fundamental molecules of life are pigments which arose and co-evolved as a response to the thermodynamic imperative of dissipating the prevailing solar spectrum” by K. Michaelian and A. Simeonov (2015) L. Björn
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We show that the fundamental molecules of life (those common to all three domains of life: Archaea, Bacteria, Eukaryota), including nucleotides, amino acids, enzyme cofactors, and porphyrin agglomerates, absorb light strongly from 230 to 280nm (in the UV-C) and have chemical affinity to RNA and DNA. This supports the "thermodynamic dissipation theory for the origin of life", which suggests that life arose and evolved as a response to dissipating the prevailing Archaean UV-C sunlight into heat.
We show that the fundamental molecules of life (those common to all three domains of life:...
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