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A major goal of synthetic biology is to recapitulate emergent properties of life. Despite a significant body of work, a longstanding question that remains to be answered is how such a complex system arose? In this dissertation, synthetic nucleic acid molecules with alternative sugar-phosphate backbones were investigated as potential ancestors of DNA and RNA.
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- Zhang, Su (Author)
- Chaut, John C (Thesis advisor)
- Ghirlanda, Giovanna (Committee member)
- Yan, Hao (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2011
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- Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2011Note typethesis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-189)Note typebibliography
- Field of study: Chemistry
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by Su Zhang