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XIV.—Abiogenic Information Coupling between Nucleic Acid and Protein, or, how Protein and DNA were married*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
Affiliation:
Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University
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The title to the talk this afternoon, “Abiogenic Information Coupling, or, How protein and DNA were married”, is, indeed, an excerpt from the much broader subject to which your President referred, namely chemical evolution of life on the surface of the earth, with some speculation about elsewhere as well. Actually, the “elsewhere” portion is more than a hopeful addition because it may provide a check on the speculations on the origin of life on the surface of the earth, which is very difficult to obtain inany other way.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , 1969 , pp. 273 - 294
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1969

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‡Eastman Professor, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1967–1968.
‡Permanent address: Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics, University of California, Berkeley. The preparation of this paper was sponsored, in part, by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
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Address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, June 17, 1968.

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