The origin of DNA: a tour of the hypotheses about its chemical evolution
Vol. 117 No. 4 (2021), Chemical Research
Vol. 117 No. 4 (2021)

The origin of DNA: a tour of the hypotheses about its chemical evolution

Chemical Research
Published 2021-12-21
Julian Serrano Giraldo
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1060-3422
Ignacio Zarante
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0729-6866
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Keywords

prebiotic chemistry
chemical evolution
origin of life
DNA
RNA
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Abstract

Given the importance that genetics has nowadays in many fields of science, this revision is made with the purpose of synthetize the main hypothesis around the emergence of DNA before the beginning of life.

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