• A protocell (or protobiont) is a self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed as a rudimentary precursor to cells during...
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  • lifelike behavior of laboratory-created protocells. Armstrong synthesized and filmed the protocells of Protocell Circus at the laboratory of the Bartlett...
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    techniques. The protocell technique, however, also lends itself well to applications; similar to other synthetic biology byproducts, protocells could be employed...
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    proteinoid microspheres proposed to be primitive cells (protocells) on early Earth. Coacervate-like protocells are at the core of the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis...
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    limited resource conditions, the protocell reproductive rate would likely be inversely related to ploidy number. The protocell's fitness would be reduced by...
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    problem Molecular evolution Astrobiology Phylogenetics Tree Polymorphism Protocell Systematics Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance Category Portal...
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  • Jeewanu (redirect from Jeewanu protocells)
    functional properties; that is, they are a model of primitive cells, or protocells. It was first synthesised by Krishna Bahadur (20 January 1926 — 5 August...
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    around the dissolved lipophilic molecule. The formation of lipids into protocell membranes represents a key step in models of abiogenesis, the origin of...
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  • proposed that they may have been precursors to the first living cells (protocells). The term was also used in the 1960s to describe peptides that are shorter...
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    distinct lineages of vesicles, which would have allowed natural selection. A protocell is a self-organized, self-ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed...
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    and thermal energy, and created what he thought was the world's first protocell out of proteinoids and water. He called these globules "microspheres"...
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    Antarctica. 3600 Eoarchean First uncontroversial living organisms: at first protocells with RNA-based genes around 4000 Ma, after which true cells (prokaryotes)...
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    universal common ancestor Earliest known life forms ?RNA life Ribozyme †Protocell Coacervate Proteinoid Sulphobe Research Model lipid bilayer Jeewanu See...
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    Artificial gene synthesis Synthetic genomics Mycoplasma laboratorium Protocell Xenobiology Nucleic acid analogue Xeno nucleic acid Unnatural base pair...
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  • bottom-up approach to build an artificial cell would involve creating a protocell de novo, entirely from non-living materials. As the term "cell" implies...
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    have been taken from simple organic molecules via pre-cellular life to protocells and metabolism. Although there is no universal agreement on the definition...
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  • intermediates. Protocells in contact with a thin rock barrier in a hydrothermal vent get a free supply of energy from the pH gradient. Protocells in a hydrothermal...
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    common ancestor from simple organic molecules via pre-cellular life to protocells and metabolism. In 2016, a set of 355 genes from the last universal common...
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    low solubility in water. Pyrophosphite could have been present within protocells, however all modern life forms use pyrophosphate for energy storage. Kee...
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    universal common ancestor Earliest known life forms ?RNA life Ribozyme †Protocell Coacervate Proteinoid Sulphobe Research Model lipid bilayer Jeewanu See...
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  • chauvinism Hypothetical types of biochemistry Nanobe Plasmid Pre-cell Protocell "What is Non-Cellular Life?". Wise Geek. Conjecture Corporation. 2009...
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    2022). "A biophysical basis for the emergence of the genetic code in protocells". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1863 (8): 148597...
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    are hypothesized (by some) to be a previously unknown form of life or protocells.[citation needed] It is a living organism (contains DNA or some analogue...
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    lipids and amino acids. It is believed that of this multiplicity of protocells, only one line survived. Current phylogenetic evidence suggests that the...
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  • promote protocell growth as nucleotides also catalyze CO2 fixation. Strong nucleotide catalysis of fatty acids and amino acids slow down protocell growth...
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  • much of the basic features provided by cell membranes. Proteinoid-based protocells enclosing RNA molecules could have been the first cellular life forms...
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    biological catalysis were considered to be contained within vesicles (protocells) with membranes composed of fatty acids and related amphiphiles. Template-directed...
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    that these were some form of prokaryotes, which may have evolved out of protocells, while the eukaryotes evolved later in the history of life. Some authors...
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    Date Event 4.3-4.1 Ga The earliest life appears, possibly as protocells. Their genetic material was probably composed of RNA, capable of both self replication...
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  • Artificial gene synthesis Synthetic genomics Mycoplasma laboratorium Protocell Xenobiology Nucleic acid analogue Xeno nucleic acid Unnatural base pair...
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