All of life, from simplest to most complex, contains five information-passing compounds that allow the genetic code to work. These nitrogen-based compounds, called nucleobases, are found in all the the DNA and RNA that provide the instructions to build and operate every living thing on Earth. How these compounds are formed, or where they come …
In Search of Panspermia (and Life on Icy Moons)
Sometimes personal affairs intervene for all of us, and they have now for your Many Worlds writer and his elderly father. But rather than remain off the radar screen, I wanted to repost this column which has a new import. It turns out that versions of the instrument described below -- a miniature gene …
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In Search of Panspermia (and Life on Icy Moons)
Sometimes personal affairs intervene for all of us, and they have now for your Many Worlds writer and his elderly father. But rather than remain off the radar screen, I wanted to repost this column which has a new import. It turns out that versions of the instrument described below -- a miniature gene …
Continue reading "In Search of Panspermia (and Life on Icy Moons)"
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