Sentences with phrase «replicating nucleic»

Szostak was pursuing the idea that life might have originated from the self - replicating nucleic acids that make up RNA.

it is there for very easy to expect that 3.5 - 4 billion years ago there were pools of water full of self replicating nucleic acids.

Not exact matches

The shortest chain of nucleic acids capable of replicating itself consists of only 6 molecules.

For tumors to grow and spread, cancer cells must make larger than normal amounts of nucleic acids and protein, so they can replicate themselves.

Investigations of how short chains of nucleic acids replicate themselves in vitro have even provided clues to primitive genetic codes for translating nucleic acid information into protein information, systems that could have preceded the elaborate machinery of ribosomes and activating enzymes with which cells now manufacture protein.

For each sample type, a standard curve for the TMAdV PCR assay was calculated from 3 PCR replicates at each dilution of nucleic acid extracted from the spiked matrix (data not shown).

«My favorite is the one we cited in the manuscript: «Viruses are entities whose genomes are elements of nucleic acid that replicate inside living cells using the cellular synthetic machinery and causing the synthesis of specialized elements that can transfer the viral genome to other cells.