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ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES
Volume 34, Issue 1-2, Pages 57-67Publisher
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DOI: 10.1023/B:ORIG.0000009828.40846.b3
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marine aerosols; fission; bacteria; virus
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Recent experimental work has verified the prediction that marine aerosols could have an exterior film of amphiphiles; palmitic, stearic and oleic acids were predominant. Thermodynamic analysis has revealed that such aerosols are energetically capable of asymmetric division. In a prebiotic terrestrial environment, one of the products of such aerosol fission would have been bacterially sized ( microns), the other would have been virally sized ( tens of nanometers). Plausible avenues for chemical differentiation between the two particles are discussed, and the probabilities for the transition from geochemistry to biochemistry updated in light of recent palaeo fossil studies.
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