Abstract:How the RNA world transited to the DNA world has remained controversial in evolutionary biology. At a certain time point in the transition from the RNA world to the DNA world, “RNA replicons,” in which RNAs produce proteins to replicate their coding RNA, and “DNA replicons,” in which DNAs produce RNA to synthesize proteins that replicate their coding DNA, can be assumed to coexist. The coexistent state of RNA replicons and DNA replicons is desired for experimental approaches to determine how the DNA world over… Show more
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