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gets that life as we know it arose but once (if life arose more than once, the other forms must have rapidly died out, possibly because they were "eaten" by the present form). Thus, by comparing the corresponding genetic messages of a wide variety of modern organisms it may be possible to derive reasonable models of the primordial messages from which they have descended.
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contact with the aqueous solvent, viewing stereo drawings, actin cleft, foldback structures, glutathione reductase reaction, exact twofold axis, redox loop mechanism, subunit arms, exergonic hydrolysis, genetic code dictionary, coat protein subunits, duplex axis, organ specialization, succinyl phosphate, lysozyme catalysis, citrate synthase reaction, enzyme nucleophile, enzymatic binding site, equilibrium density gradient ultracentrifugation, lac enzymes, lysozyme reaction, bisubstrate reactions, bisubstrate mechanisms, chemically identical subunits, flavin ring
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Trends Biochem, Academic Press, Irving Geis, Cell Biol, Protein Chem, Harvard University, Ping Pong, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Practical Approach, Plenum Press, Trends Genet, Yale University, Nucleic Acid Res, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, Brandeis University, University of Alabama, Methods Enzymol, New Engl, Cambridge University Press, Thomas Steitz, Biophysical Chemistry, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Cell Press, Enzyme Structure
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