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Ross Township police said the accident happened at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday outside Faith Lutheran Church in the Laurel Gardens neighborhood.
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TMZ is reporting Basketball Wives LA is getting a new cast members for next season and Dwayne Wade and Nick Young will not be happy.
Via TMZ
Production sources tell us Keonna Green, who just had her 2nd kid with Nick, and Aja … who has a 3-year-old by Dwyane — will join Shaunie O'Neal, Tami Roman and Jackie Christie for the next season. Executive producer Shaunie definitely increased the drama with her new hires. Keonna made headlines when her pregnancy broke up Nick's engagement to Iggy Azalea. As for Aja, she hooked up with Dwyane when he was allegedly "on a break" from Gabrielle Union.
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I have only had a chance to set up a few of you for now, and I am actually ahead of schedule… I was to have everyone selected and ready to go by the 21st, but someone… I won't mention any names LOL, is pressuring me to hurry up lmao
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Proponents of the RNA world hypothesis commonly argue that it has been proven that RNA's could self-replicate. Let's suppose that were true, that is as if self-replication could produce a hard drive. To go from a hard drive ( which by itself requires complex information to be assembled, in case of biology, DNA, not RNA since it's too unstable, ) that does not explain the origin of the information to make all life essential parts in the cell.
It is as to go just from a hard drive storage device to a self replicating factory with the ability of self replication of the entire factory once ready, to respond to changing environmental demands and regulate its metabolic pathways, regulate and coordinate all cellular processes, such as molecule and building block biosynthesis according to the cells demands, depending on growth, and other factors.
The ability of uptake of nutrients, to be structured, internally compartmentalized and organized, being able to check replication errors and minimize them, and react to stimuli, and changing environments. That's is, the ability to adapt to the environment is a must right from the beginning.
If just ONE single protein or enzyme - of many - is missing, no life. If topoisomerase II or helicase are missing - no replication - no perpetuation of life.
Why would a prebiotic soup or hydrothermal vents produce these proteins - if by their own there is no use for them?
Paul Davies The Algorithmic Origins of Life
Despite the conceptual elegance of the RNA world, the hypothesis faces problems, primarily due to the immense challenge of synthesizing RNA nucleotides under plausible prebiotic conditions and the susceptibility of RNA oligomers to degradation via hydrolysis 21 Due to the organizational structure of systems capable of processing algorithmic (instructional) information, it is not at all clear that a monomolecular system – where a single polymer plays the role of catalyst and informational carrier – is even logically consistent with the organization of information flow in living systems, because there is no possibility of separating information storage from information processing (that being such a distinctive feature of modern life). As such, digital-first systems (as currently posed) represent a rather trivial form of information processing that fails to capture the logical structure of life as we know it.
Replicator first, and metabolism first scenarios
No evidence that RNA molecules ever had the broad range of catalytic activities
The hardware and software of the cell, evidence of design
The origin of replication and translation and the RNA World
Tom Robbins: The time argument is worthless. As over time, organic molecules break apart as fast as they form - thus the monkey's on a typewriter argument does not work, as the INFORMATION represented on the paper when they strike a key, disappears off the paper as they type. Given enough time, CERTAIN things will probably happen, but only things that are not impossible (and of course there was a finite amount of time from the creation of the earth). Nature can't create specified, dedicated, self-replicating, self-repairing, self-editing information - THE ONLY source that we know of that can do this, is MIND..
Given the complexity of the simplest ribozymes mediating transcription and translation and the ongoing failure to obtain activated ribonucleotides from ribose and nucleobases, the RNA-world hypothesis faces substantial challenge 23
Asphalt, Water, and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Ribose, Ribonucleosides, and RNA 25
RNA has been called a "prebiotic chemist's nightmare" because of its combination of large size, carbohydrate building blocks, bonds that are thermodynamically unstable in water, and overall intrinsic instability. Many bonds in RNA are thermodynamically unstable with respect to hydrolysis in water, creating a "water problem". Finally, some bonds in RNA appear to be "impossible" to form under any conditions considered plausible for early Earth. In chemistry, when free energy is applied to organic matter without Darwinian evolution, the matter devolves to become more and more "asphaltic", as the atoms in the mixture are rearranged to give ever more molecular species. In the resulting "asphaltization", what was life comes to display fewer and fewer characteristics of life.
Biologists routinely observe the opposite. In the biosphere, when free energy is provided to organic matter that does have access to Darwinian evolution, that matter does not become asphaltic. Instead, "life finds a way" to exploit available raw materials, including atoms and energy, to create more of itself and, over time, better of itself. This observation is made across the Earth, from its poles to the equator, from high in the atmosphere to the deepest oceans, and in humidities that cover all but the very driest. The contrast between these commonplace observations in chemistry versus commonplace observations in biology embodies the paradox that lies at the center of the bio-origins puzzle. Regardless of the organic materials or the kinds of energy present early on Earth, chemists expect that a natural devolution took them away from biology toward asphalt. To escape this asphaltic fate, this devolution must have transited a chemical system that was, somehow, able to sustain Darwinian evolution. Otherwise, the carbon on Earth would have ended up looking like the carbon in the Murchison meteorite (or the La Brea tar pits without the fossils).
We have not addressed the "chirality problem". Here, the challenge arises as we attempt to select from among a large number of possible approaches for chiral enrichment, ranging from the interaction of organic species with
chiral minerals (e.g., quartz) to the resolution at the time of oligomerization. Current experiments suggest that RNA molecules that catalyze the degradation of RNA are more likely to emerge from a library of random RNA molecules than RNA molecules that catalyze the template-directed synthesis of RNA, especially given cofactors (e.g., Mg2þ). This could, of course, be a serious (and possibly fatal) flaw to the RNA-first hypothesis for bioorigins.
We need to explain the origin of both the hardware and software aspects of life, or the job is only half finished. Explaining the chemical substrate of life and claiming it as a solution to life's origin is like pointing to silicon and copper as an explanation for the goings-on inside a computer. It is this transition where one should expect to see a chemical system literally take on "a life of its own", characterized by informational dynamics which become decoupled from the dictates of local chemistry alone (while of course remaining fully consistent with those dictates). Thus the famed chicken-or-egg problem (a sole hardware issue) is not the true sticking point. Rather, the puzzle lies with something fundamentally different, a problem of a causal organization having to do with the separation of informational and mechanical aspects into parallel causal narratives. The real challenge of life's origin is thus to explain how instructional information control systems emerge naturally and spontaneously from mere molecular dynamics.
But now we hit a snag. The second step on the road to life, or at least the road to proteins, is for amino acids to link together to form molecules known as peptides. A protein is a long peptide chain, or a polypeptide. Whereas the spontaneous formation of amino acids from an inorganic chemical mixture is an allowed downhill process, coupling amino acids together to form peptides is an uphill process. It therefore heads in the wrong direction, thermodynamically speaking. Each peptide bond that is forged requires a water molecule to be plucked from the chain. In a watery medium like a primordial soup, this is thermodynamically unfavorable. Consequently, it will not happen spontaneously: work has to be done to force the newly extracted water molecule into the water saturated medium. Obviously, peptide formation is not impossible because it happens inside living organisms. But there the uphill reaction is driven along by the use of customized molecules that are pre-energized to supply the necessary work. In a simple chemical soup, no such specialized molecules would be on hand to give the reactions the boost they need. So a watery soup is a recipe for molecular disassembly, not self-assembly.
Systems of interconnected software and hardware like in the cell are irreducibly complex and interdependent. There is no reason for information processing machinery to exist without the software and vice versa.
Proof by self-replicating RNA
1. Till now, after more than 50 years of biochemical experiments, there were no self-replicating RNA molecules generated in any different laboratory conditions that resemble the prebiotic period of creation.
2. RNA has no self-replicating power.
3. Without self-replicating RNA there is neither natural selection nor evolution.
4. Therefore, there must have been another original cause of existence and that cause is God.
The classic evolutionary problem of 'which came first, protein or DNA' has not been solved by the 'self-reproducing' RNA theory as many textbooks imply. The theory is not credible as it was based on laboratory simulations which were highly artificial, and was carried out with a 'great deal of help from the scientists'.19
For 40 years, efforts to understand the prebiotic synthesis of the ribonucleotide building blocks of RNA have been based on the assumption that they must have assembled from their three molecular components: a nucleobase (which can be adenine, guanine, cytosine or uracil), a ribose sugar and phosphate. Of the many difficulties encountered by those in the field, the most frustrating has been the failure to find any way of properly joining the pyrimidine nucleobases — cytosine and uracil — to ribose3 . The idea that a molecule as complex as RNA could have assembled spontaneously has therefore been viewed with increasing scepticism. 20
The most widely accepted hypothesis among biologists, the RNA world hypothesis, still has strong supporters [1] but difficulties with the hypothesis are recognized, especially the problem of synthesizing RNA in the absence of enzymes 15
Let's have a closer look at RNA world - origin of life proposals: Here from the book of Bruce Alberts: The Evolution of the Cell
One of the principal problems concerning the hypothesis of the RNA world is that it appears quite unlikely that a prebiotic environment could have existed containing the mixture of activated nucleotides favoring the formation and replication of ribozymes, as well as their evolution through natural selection. Even if there were several candidate reactions for an efficient prebiotic synthesis of nucleic bases, access to monomeric nucleotides by chemical pathways, in fact, comes up against several obstacles. If one goes no further than mimicking the biochemical pathway, the first difficulty that occurs is that of synthesizing ribose, which is formed in just negligible quantities within the complex mixture obtained by polymerization of formaldehyde, and, what is more, has a limited lifetime. The bond between a nucleic base and ribose that produces a nucleoside is then a very difficult reaction. There still remains the matter of obtaining a nucleotide by phosphorylation, which leads to mixtures because three positions remain available on the ribose, and then there is its activation 24
Problematic Chemical Postulates of the RNA World Scenario
Postulate 1: There was a prebiotic pool of beta-D-ribonucleotides. 8
Beta-D-ribonucleotides are compounds made up of a purine (adenine or guanine) or a pyrimidine (uracil or cytosine) linked to the 1'-position of ribose in the beta-configuration.
There is, in addition, a phosphate group attached to the 5'-position of the ribose. For the four different ribonucleotides in this prebiotic scenario, there would be hundreds of other possible isomers.
But each of these four ribonucleotides is built up of three components: a purine or pyrimidine, a sugar (ribose), and phosphate. It is highly unlikely that any of the necessary subunits would have accumulated in any more than trace amounts on the primitive Earth. Consider ribose. The proposed prebiotic pathway leading to this sugar, the formose reaction, is especially problematic.
prebiotically plausible sequences of steps to the precursors of this ribose derivative and from it to the standard nucleotides are not obvious. 17
Formose reaction
The formose reaction is of great importance to the question of the origin of life as it explains part of the path from simple formaldehyde to complex sugars like ribose and from there to RNA. In one experiment simulating early Earth conditions, pentoses formed from mixtures of formaldehyde, glyceraldehyde, and borate minerals such as colemanite (Ca2B6O115H2O) or kernite (Na2B4O7).[4] Both formaldehyde and glycolaldehyde have been observed spectroscopically in outer space, making the formose reaction of particular interest to the field of astrobiology.
Aldol reaction
The aldol reaction is a means of forming carbon–carbon bonds in organic chemistry.Discovered independently by Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and Alexander Borodin in 1872, the reaction combines two carbonyl compounds (the original experiments used aldehydes) to form a new β-hydroxy carbonyl compound. These products are known as aldols, from the aldehyde + alcohol, a structural motif seen in many of the products. Aldol structural units are found in many important molecules, whether naturally occurring or synthetic. For example, the aldol reaction has been used in the large-scale production of the commodity chemical pentaerythritol[11] and the synthesis of the heart disease drug Lipitor (atorvastatin, calcium salt).
and aldose-ketose isomerizations.
In carbohydrate chemistry, the Lobry de Bruyn–van Ekenstein transformation also known as the Lobry de Bruyn–Alberda–van Ekenstein transformation is the base or acid catalyzed transformation of an aldose into the ketose isomer or vice versa, with a tautomeric enediol as reaction intermediate. Ketoses may be transformed into 3-ketoses, etcetera. The enediol is also an intermediate for the epimerization of an aldose or ketose.
The improbability of prebiotic nucleic acid synthesis.
Many accounts of the origin of life assume that the spontaneous synthesis of a self-replicating nucleic acid could take place readily. Serious chemical obstacles exist, however, which make such an event extremely improbable. Prebiotic syntheses of adenine from HCN, of D,L -ribose from adenosine, and of adenosine from adenine and D-ribose have in fact been demonstrated. However these procedures use pure starting materials, afford poor yields, and are run under conditions which are not compatible with one another. Any nucleic acid components which were formed on the primitive earth would tend to hydrolyze by a number of pathways. Their polymerization would be inhibited by the presence of vast numbers of related substances which would react preferentially with them. It appears likely that nucleic acids were not formed by prebiotic routes
The nitrogenous substances react with formaldehyde, the intermediates in the pathways to sugars, and with sugars themselves to form non-biological materials10. Furthermore, as Stanley Miller and his colleagues recently reported, "ribose and other sugars have surprisingly short half-lives for decomposition at neutral pH, making it very unlikely that sugars were available as prebiotic reagents."
Or consider adenine. Reaction pathways proposed for the prebiotic synthesis of this building block start with HCN in alkaline (pH 9.2) solutions of NH4OH.12 These reactions give small yields of adenine (e.g., 0.04%) and other nitrogenous bases provided the HCN concentration is greater than 0.01 M. However, the reaction mixtures contain a great variety of nitrogenous substances that would interfere with the formose reaction. Therefore, the conditions proposed for the prebiotic synthesis of purines and pyrimidines are clearly incompatible with those proposed for the synthesis of ribose. Moreover, adenine is susceptible to deamination and ring-opening reactions (with half-lives of about 80 years and 200 years respectively at 37º C and neutral pH), making its prebiotic accumulation highly improbable. This makes it difficult to see how any appreciable quantities of nucleosides and nucleotides could have accumulated on the primitive Earth. If the key components of nucleotides (the correct purines and pyrimidines, ribose, and phosphate) were not present, the possibility of obtaining a pool of the four beta-D-ribonucleotides with correct linkages would be remote indeed.
If this postulate, the first and most crucial assumption, is not valid, however, then the entire hypothesis of an RNA World formed by natural processes becomes meaningless.
Pentose sugars, constituents of RNA and DNA, can be synthesised in the formose reaction, given the presence of formaldehyde (HCHO). The products are a melange of sugars of various carbon lengths which are optically left- and right-handed (d and l). With few exceptions sugars found in biological systems are of the d type; for instance, β-d-ribose of RNA, which is always produced in small quantities abiotically.Hydrocyanic acid (HCN) undergoes polymerisation to form diaminomaleonitrile which is on the pathway to producing adenine, hypoxanthine, guanine, xanthine and diaminopurine. These are purines: there is difficulty in producing pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil) in comparable quantities Neither preformed purines nor pyrimidines have been successfully linked to ribose by organic chemists. An attempt to make purine nucleosides resulted in a "dizzying array of related compounds".39 This is expected if sugars and bases were randomly coupled. The prebiotic production of numerous isomers and closely related molecules hinders the likelihood of forming desirable mononucleosides. Furthermore, unless ribose and the purine bases form nucleosides rapidly they would be degraded quite quickly.
Postulate 2: Beta-D ribonucleotides spontaneously form polymers linked together by 3', 5'-phosphodiester linkages (i.e., they link to form molecules of RNA
nucleotides do not link unless there is some type of activation of the phosphate group. The only effective activating groups for the nucleotide phosphate group (imidazolines, etc.), however, are those that are totally implausible in any prebiotic scenario. In living organisms today, adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) is used for activation of nucleoside phosphate groups, but ATP would not be available for prebiotic syntheses. Joyce and Orgel note the possible use of minerals for polymerization reactions, but then express their doubts about this possibility
Joyce and Orgel then note that if there were activation of the phosphate group, the primary polymer product would have 5', 5'-pyrophosphate linkages; secondarily 2', 5'-phosphodiester linkages -- while the desired 3',5'-phosphodiester linkages would be much less abundant. However, all RNA known today has only 3',5'-phosphodiester linkages, and any other linkages would alter the three-dimensional structure and possibilities for function as a template or a catalyst.
Even waiving these obstacles, and allowing for minute amounts of oligoribonucleotides, these molecules would have been rendered ineffective at various stages in their growth by adding incorrect nucleotides, or by reacting with the myriads of other substances likely to have been present. Moreover, the RNA molecules would have been continuously degraded by spontaneous hydrolysis and other destructive processes operating on the primitive Earth.
In brief, any movement in the direction of an RNA World on a realistically-modeled early Earth would have been continuously suppressed by destructive cross-reactions.
One of the more enigmatic and difficult problems confronting the prebiotic chemistry community is identifying how the monomers of RNA, or pre-RNA, or even non-related polymeric components selectively formed and self-assembled out of the presumed random prebiotic mixtures. It is in this assembly into informational polymers (Figure 4) where significant selection processes must have occurred not only for the base composition but also for the other components of nucleic acids (or nucleic acid alternatives and precursors). Focusing on just a narrow view of RNA precursors, the linking of a nucleo-base to a ribose sugar is one such pressure. There are multiple ways in which a nucleobase can be attached to ribose via an N-glycosidic bond, but only one is found in contemporary nucleic acids (via the N9 of purines and N1 of pyrimidines). 14
Achieving regio- and stereochemical selectivity of glycosylation reactions under simulated prebiotic conditions has plagued the community ever since Orgel and others began working on this problem
Complex Chemical Systems Can Develop in an Environment That Is Far from Chemical Equilibrium 7
Simple organic molecules such as amino acids and nucleotides can associate to form polymers. One amino acid can join with another by forming a peptide bond, and two nucleotides can join together by a phosphodiester bond.
Protein synthesis (condensation of amino acids through sequential peptide bond formation) is a fundamental and ubiquitous reaction in biology. Aqueous media are the required environments in which this chemistry takes place; however, protein synthesis is unfavorable in aqueous solution. In modern biology, the condensation reactions necessary in the formation of peptide bonds are facilitated catalytically by the large subunit of the ribosome.
Peptide bond synthesis occurs in the 50S subunit ( of the ribosome ) at the peptidyl transferase center, (PTC) 4
The crucial peptide bond formation of protein synthesis is catalyzed by the ribosome in all organisms. 5
The activation of amino acids and the formation of peptides under primordial conditions is one of the great riddles of the origin of life.
The famous pioneer of evolutionary origin-of-life experiments, Stanley Miller, points out that polymers are 'too unstable to exist in a hot prebiotic environment' 10
Question: How could simple organic molecules such as amino acids and nucleotides associate to form polymers, one amino acid joining with another by forming a peptide bond, if peptide bonds are synthesized in the probably most complex protein complex known, the ribosome, but the ribosome was not there at this stage ?
Prebiotic Peptide synthesis was likely initiated in a simple way, yet must have evolved into the contemporary complexity of the ribosome. Of course. There is no other explanation, since an Intelligent designer is excluded a priori. In order to know how the current ribosome-catalyzed reaction evolved from a primitive system, model systems based on the RNA world hypothesis with the molecules like the minihelix and tRNA were postulated. Elucidation of the evolutionary route from the simple system to the present complex ribosome is a big challenge in modern science; this gap may be filled by the concept of the proto-ribosome, which is composed of a symmetrical tRNA-like dimer. 5
The peptide synthesis hypotheses must jump over a large gap to attain ribosome-based peptide synthesis. 5
We have right at the beginning of naturalistic proposals of the origin of life the typical guess work which extends all over the key issues of the origin of life, the transition to the 3 domains of life, from unicellular to multicellular, and biodiversity on earth. That seems to be a RED LiNE extending through all scientific papers, which deal with key issues in biology. Naturalism is simply not tenable, the explanations all end at a dead end, where guesswork is common, and evolution of the gaps arguments.
A restricted set of 20 amino acids constitute the universal building blocks of the proteins, while RNA and DNA molecules are constructed from just four types of nucleotides each. It is uncertain why these particular sets of monomers were selected for biosynthesis in preference to others that are chemically similar
The earliest polymers may have formed in any of several ways - for example, by the heating of dry organic compounds or by the catalytic activity of high concentrations of inorganic polyphosphates or other crude mineral catalysts. Under laboratory conditions, the products of similar reactions are polymers of variable length and random sequence in which the particular amino acid or nucleotide added at any point depends mainly on chance
The origin of life requires that in an assortment of such molecules there must have been some possessing, if only to a small extent, a crucial property: the ability to catalyze reactions that lead, directly or indirectly, to production of more molecules of the catalyst itself. Production of catalysts with this special self-promoting property would be favored, and the molecules most efficient in aiding their own production would divert raw materials from the production of other substances. In this way one can envisage the gradual development of an increasingly complex chemical system of organic monomers and polymers that function together to generate more molecules of the same types, fueled by a supply of simple raw materials in the environment. Such an autocatalytic system would have some of the properties we think of as characteristic of living matter: it would comprise a far from random selection of interacting molecules; it would tend to reproduce itself; it would compete with other systems dependent on the same feedstocks; and if deprived of its feedstocks or maintained at a wrong temperature that upsets the balance of reaction rates, it would decay toward chemical equilibrium and "die."
What we see here, is a typical fairy tale story, based on no evidence, just fantasy without a shred data to back up the story. Why should someone be credule towards such a scenario? Words like must have been, would be, one can envisage, would, would have, we think of, it would do not invoke much credibility.....
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Formation of polynucleotides and polypeptides. Nucleotides of four kinds (here represented by the single letters A, U, G, and C) can undergo spontaneous polymerization with the loss of water. The product is a mixture of polynucleotides that are random in length and sequence. Similarly, amino acids of different types, symbolized here by three-letter abbreviated names, can polymerize with one another to form polypeptides. Present-day proteins are built from a standard set of 20 types of amino acids.
Polynucleotides Can Both Store Information and Catalyze Chemical Reactions 2
Polynucleotides have properties that contrast with those of polypeptides. They have more limited capabilities as catalysts, but they can directly guide the formation of exact copies of their own sequence. This capacity depends on the complementary pairing of nucleotide subunits, which enables one polynucleotide to act as a template for the formation of another. In the simplest case, a polymer composed of one nucleotide (for example, polycytidylic acid, or poly C) can line up the subunits required to make another polynucleotide (in this example, polyguanylic acid, or poly G) along its surface, thereby promoting their polymerization into poly G
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Polynucleotides as templates. Preferential binding occurs between pairs of nucleotides (G with C and U with A) by relatively weak chemical bonds (above). This pairing enables one polynucleotide to act as a template for the synthesis of another (left).
This capacity depends on the complementary base pairing of nucleotide subunits, which enables one polynucleotide to act as a template for the formation of another. As we have seen in this and the preceding chapter, such complementary templating mechanisms lie at the heart of DNA replication and transcription in modern-day cells. But the efficient synthesis of polynucleotides by such complementary templating mechanisms requires catalysts to promote the polymerization reaction: without catalysts, polymer formation is slow, error-prone, and inefficient.
Consider now a polynucleotide with a more complex sequence of subunitsspecifically, a molecule of RNA strung together from four types of nucleotides, containing the bases uracil (U), adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G), arranged in some particular sequence. Because of complementary pairing between the bases A and U and between the bases G and C, this molecule, when added to a mixture of activated nucleotides under suitable conditions, will line them up for polymerization in a sequence complementary to its own. The resulting new RNA molecule will be rather like a mold of the original, with each A in the original corresponding to a U in the copy and so on. The sequence of nucleotides in the original RNA strand contains information that is, in essence, preserved in the newly formed complementary strands: the second round of copying, with the complementary strand as a template, restores the original sequence 2
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Replication of a polynucleotide sequence (here an RNA molecule). In step 1 the original RNA molecule acts as a template to form an RNA molecule of complementary sequence. In step 2 this complementary RNA molecule itself acts as a template, forming RNA molecules of the original sequence. Since each templating molecule can produce many copies of the complementary strand, these reactions can result in the "multiplication" of the original sequence.
Such complementary templating mechanisms are elegantly simple, and they lie at the heart of information transfer processes in biological systems. The genetic information contained in every cell is encoded in the sequences of nucleotides in its polynucleotide molecules, and this information is passed on (inherited) from generation to generation by means of complementary base-pairing interactions.
Templating mechanisms, however, require additional catalysts to promote polymerization; without these the process is slow and inefficient and other, competing reactions prevent the formation of accurate replicas. Today, the catalytic functions that polymerize nucleotides are provided by highly specialized catalytic proteins that is, by enzymes. In the "prebiotic soup" primitive polypeptides might perhaps have provided some catalytic help. But molecules with the appropriate catalytic specificity would have remained rare unless the RNA itself were able somehow to reciprocate and favor their production. We shall come back to the reciprocal relationship between RNA synthesis and protein synthesis, which is crucially important in all living cells. But let us first consider what could be done with RNA itself, for RNA molecules can have a variety of catalytic properties, besides serving as templates for their own replication. In particular, an RNA molecule with an appropriate nucleotide sequence can act as a catalyst for the accurate replication of another RNA molecule - the template - whose sequence can be arbitrary.
The special versatility of RNA molecules is thought to have enabled them to play a central role in the origin of life. We have however to ignore what has stated above, namely that without catalysts the process is slow and inefficient which makes this hypothesis remotely possible. That makes the scenario very unlikely. And so far, the sequence would be completely random, no coded information.
We have seen that the expression of hereditary information requires extraordinarily complex machinery and proceeds from DNA to the protein through an RNA intermediate. This machinery presents a central paradox: if nucleic acids are required to synthesize proteins and proteins are required, in turn, to synthesize nucleic acids, how did such a system of interdependent components ever arise? One view is that an RNA world existed on Earth before modern cells arose. According to this hypothesis, RNA both stored genetic information and catalyzed the chemical reactions in primitive cells. Only later in evolutionary time did DNA take over as the genetic material and proteins become the major catalyst and structural component of cells. Heredity is perhaps the central feature of life. Not only must a cell use raw materials to create a network of catalyzed reactions, it must do so according to an elaborate set of instructions encoded in the hereditary information. The replication of this information ensures that the complex metabolism of cells can accurately reproduce itself. 6
The emergence of life requires a way to store information, a way to duplicate it, a way to change it, and a way to convert the information through catalysis into favorable chemical reactions. But how could such a system begin to be formed?
In present-day cells, the most versatile catalysts are polypeptides, composed of many different amino acids with chemically diverse side chains and, consequently, able to adopt diverse three-dimensional forms that bristle with reactive chemical groups. Polypeptides also carry information, in the order of their amino acid subunits. But there is no known way in which a polypeptide can reproduce itself by directly specifying the formation of another of precisely the same sequence.
Linking the RNA sugar-phosphate backbones together
Phosphodiester bonds
The sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA. This backbone is composed of alternating sugar and phosphate groups, and defines directionality of the molecule. 3
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DNA and RNA are composed of nucleotides that are linked to one another in a chain by chemical bonds, called ester bonds, between the sugar base of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of the adjacent nucleotide. The sugar is the 3' end, and the phosphate is the 5' end of each nucleiotide. The phosphate group attached to the 5' carbon of the sugar on one nucleotide forms an ester bond with the free hydroxyl on the 3' carbon of the next nucleotide. These bonds are called phosphodiester bonds, and the sugar-phosphate backbone is described as extending, or growing, in the 5' to 3' direction when the molecule is synthesized.
Both DNA and RNA ligases catalyze the formation of a phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides with the concomitant hydrolysis of ATP to AMP and inorganic pyrophosphate. 11
The ligation mechanism is essentially identical for both DNA and RNA ligases, and occurs in three stages:
First is the formation of an enzyme-nucleotide intermediate through the transfer of an adenylyl group (AMP) from either ATP or NAD to the epsilon-amine group of a lysine residue in the enzyme. This results in the release of pyrophosphate when ATP is the cofactor and NMN when NAD is used.
Second, the adenylyl group is transferred from the enzyme to the 5′-phosphate of the DNA (DNA ligases) or donor polynucleotide (RNA ligases), thereby activating it.
Third, a phosphodiester bond is formed by nucleophilic attack of the 3′- hydroxyl group of the DNA (DNA ligases) or acceptor polynucleotide (RNA ligases) on the
activated 5′-phosphate, with concomitant release of AMP.
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The RNA Ligase Ribozyme was the first of several types of synthetic ribozymes produced by in vitro evolution and selection techniques. They are an important class of ribozymes because they catalyze the assembly of RNA fragments into phosphodiester RNA polymers, a reaction required of all extant nucleic acid polymerases and thought to be required for any self-replicating molecule. Ideas that the origin of life may have involved the first self-replicating molecules being ribozymes are called RNA World hypotheses. Ligase Ribozymes may have been part of such a pre-biotic RNA world. 12
In order to copy RNA, fragments or monomers (individual building blocks) that have 5'-triphosphates must be ligated together. This is true for modern (protein-based) polymerases and is also the most likely mechanism by which a ribozyme self-replicase in an RNA world might function. Yet no one has found a natural ribozyme that can perform this reaction.
Origins of Life, Hugh Ross, pg.81
High-energy phosphate compounds. Phosphate groups assume an integral role in the linkages that form the backbone of DNA and RNA. They also comprise the head-group region of key cell membrane components (phospholipids). In addition to their structural importance, phosphates also serve a critical role in the cell's metabolic processes. Phosphate chains, called polyphosphates, form a relatively unstable high-energy chemical structure in which the cell's metabolic systems store energy. The breakage of these highenergy phosphate bonds releases energy used by the cell to power its operation. All organisms continuously produce and consume massive amounts of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and similar compounds in which polyphosphate groups are constituents. Many researchers speculate that more primitive prebiotic polyphosphate compounds played a similar role to ATP during the origin-of-life process and later evolved into ATP. Because high-energy compounds that could transfer phosphate groups to the RNA and DNA backbones were essential to the RNA- and DNA-protein-world scenarios, a phosphate source must have been present on early Earth. Researchers propose several possible prebiotic chemical routes to polyphosphates. The most common include the heating of apatite (a phosphate-containing mineral); the high-temperature heating (from 392 to 1,112 °F, 200 to 600 °C) of dihydrogen phosphates; and the phosphates' reaction with high-energy organic compounds.[/justify]
1) http://www.bioon.com/book/biology/mboc/mboc.cgi@action=figure&fig=1-4.htm
2) http://www.bioon.com/book/biology/mboc/mboc.cgi@code=010103174953651.htm
3) http://www.nature.com/scitable/definition/phosphate-backbone-273
3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465415/
4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2926754/
5) http://journalofcosmology.com/Abiogenesis130.html
6) Alberts, molecular biology of the cell, pg.401
7) http://gowiki.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Category:GO:0090501_!_RNA_phosphodiester_bond_hydrolysis
7) http://www.bioon.com/book/biology/mboc/mboc.cgi@code=010102442543328.htm
8 ) http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od171/rnaworld171.htm
9) R. Shapiro, "The improbability of prebiotic nucleic acid synthesis," Origins of Life 14 (1984): 565-570; R. Shapiro, "Prebiotic ribose synthesis: a critical analysis," Origins of Life 18 (1988): 71-85. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6462692
10) http://creation.com/origin-of-life-the-polymerization-problem
11) https://www.promega.com/~/media/files/resources/product%20guides/cloning%20enzymes/ligases.pdf?la=en
12) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligase_ribozyme
13) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairpin_ribozyme
14) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181368/
15) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390864/
16) http://exploringorigins.org/nucleicacids.html
17) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18793/
18) http://creation.com/origin-of-life-critique
19) Scientific American, February, 1991 p:100-109
20) Systems chemistry on early Earth, Jack W. Szostak, nature, Vol 459|14 May 2009,
21) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.4803v2.pdf
22) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.4803v2.pdf
23) https://www.mpg.de/9333399/Origin_of_Life_basetext.pdf
24) M. Gargaud · H. Martin · P. López-García T. Montmerle · R. Pascal Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life , page 116
25) http://pubs.acs.org.sci-hub.cc/doi/abs/10.1021/ar200332w
further readings: http://creation.com/native-folds-in-polypeptide-chains-1
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- What is soy wax?
- You may be astounded to discover that soy wax, isn't wax in any way. It's really a type of incompletely hydrogenated soy bean oil. Hydrogen is added to the soy bean oil and a substance response happens to transform it into a strong. Hydrogen is the most well-known compound component on earth and is a piece of H2O (water).
- Since soy wax originates from soy bean oil, it's viewed as all normal and is biodegradable. Soybeans are developed the world over and are viewed as a manageable and renewable asset.
- Added substances
- Alright, so soy wax is all normal to begin - however there are some basic added substances. Some of them characteristic and some of them not. The most well-known added substances in soy wax are color, aroma and chemicals to improve a performing wax.
- Most business colors are not characteristic. In spite of the fact that there are some common colors most are not being utilized as a part of light making. Cleansers and regular excellence items will probably contain characteristic colors.
- Aroma is not normal. In spite of the fact that there are many skin safe aroma oils available, they are made artificially and in no way, shape or form common.
- Every characteristic added substance incorporate herbal oils and basic oils.
- Plant oils are frequently utilized rather than synthetic added substances to improve a quality wax from a visual point of view. 100% soy wax candles will break and chip on the tops, this is redressed by including botanicals or now and again makers warm weapon the highest point of each light after it has been poured and cooled.
- Basic oils are included place of scent. These oils originate from exceptionally verdant plants, trees, grasses and seeds. They are frequently mixed together and are regularly weakened with a transporter oil. Most makers will utilize a characteristic transporter oil to guarantee the items made with their oils are still viewed as all common. Probably the most widely recognized transporter oils are olive, hemp, and soybean oil. Fundamental oil candles can be more costly than scent candles because of the high cost of the basic oils.
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- There are many sorts of waxes utilized as a part of light making the most well-known being paraffin, soy and beeswax.
- Beeswax candles are all normal, unless they have been colored or had fragrance included. They are most ordinarily sold as immaculate beeswax. The shade of beeswax shifts relying upon how much it's been refined and can go from yellow to white. Some clumps may even have a blue shading if the wax has originated from honey bees that have sustained on a lavender field.
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- All characteristic soy wax candles are cleaner smoldering than paraffin based candles. Paraffin wax is petroleum based, a side effect of petroleum refining.
- Soy wax has a lower dissolving point than paraffin wax which discharges the aroma sooner, copy all the more equally over the light, and isn't as prone to copy when it interacts with your skin.
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I bike to school every morning and the past couple mornings it's been cold. Relatively cold, that is. If these temps hit in March, we'll all be playing frisbee barefoot in sundresses. But it's not March, it's October, and the temp is hovering between 35 and 40 degrees in the early morning. My body isn't acclimated yet, and it might as well be 300 below.
So I've been doing some thinking about things that get me through the winter each year, and came up with the top five.
#1: My hot water bottle. Generally I fill it with hot water right before bed, and stick it down by my feet. Once it's warm at the bottom of my bed, I like to wrap it around my head like a nice warm (rubber) hat. Sometimes when I'm home alone, I put it inside my sweater, although I'm also a fan of just curling up in a ball around it. It's a fab solution for a college kid who can't afford heated floors, heated keyboard, heated towel racks, or...let's face it...heat.
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#3: Soup or Stew of any variety. You warm your insides, your hands (just hold the bowl), and your soul. Bonus: pour any extras in your hot water bottle for an extra toasty time.
#4: Vigorous exercise necessitated by presence of snow. Truly, there's nothing quite as exhausting--and thus warming--as trudging through snow you haven't bothered to shovel yet. (pictured below: me on my way to school).
I suppose this category could also include warmth generated by laughing really hard as you watch people fall over on snow and ice. (Really, ladies, just put the heels away till spring).
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one of the best joys the past couple of weeks offered was spending some special, quality time with our precious little four-year old and her daddy – April Son. besides, Wife, Mom – Nana, is one of my most favorite identities! and one of my most favorite things to do is to hold on, hold on tight to that sweet little girl. when those two little arms go up, it's very hard for anyone to resist swooping her up – especially her Nana and her Papa S (Sweet Man)! we had plenty of opportunities during the days they were here to hold on, even when we may have been too tired, or had other things to do. we treasure those moments, those etchings of Joy!
this past sunday while singing and reflecting on the words of "waiting here for you," what a beautiful picture came to mind – our Father – our Abba Father – and us – His children. what a great way to usher in the new year, knowing He is waiting for us with open arms!
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Problems seeing out of your car? Blame the PVC.Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Here at BeyondtheKM, we like to analyse current issues that concern the European auto industry. This posting concerns most all manufacturers because it involves a very common component: PVC.
For a little background PVC, or Polyvinyl Chloride is the substance or "plastic" commonly found in automotives. You will often see it used on the dashboard for instance. PVC contains plasticizers such as phthalate. These are non-toxic substances as classified by current science, however, they are produced with toxic substances including vinyl chloride.
A recent Los Angeles Times article by Ralph Vartabedian takes a look at various car manufacturers and their efforts to improve air quality in cars. Notably, VW was at the bottom and Ford, Toyota, and Honda were at the top of the 19-manufacturer list.
The article goes on to point out two key pieces of information including the fact that PVC is a problem for humans from manufacture to use to end-of-life. Additionally, the significance arises from the fact that most manufacturers use PVC in over 50% of the interior parts.
The end result is this: first, PVC is what is causing your interior glass to "haze" over. This is not only a nightmare to clean, but can cause impaired vision from within the car. Second, while current science claims PVC is non-toxic, consumers and manufacturers might be wise to take caution. PVC is an environmental hazard. It is possibly not as bad as DDT, but we should acknowledge that it is far from "safe."
That's not to say that everyone should run out and buy a Porsche with leather-covered dashes. Economically, that is not a reality. This posting merely serves to let people know that the car you are riding in, despite all of the technology, still has faults. It is a not a perfect creation, and poses a potential risk for more silent and inconspicuous than your average road accident.


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Every year our "Society" (made up of those who have officially become Covenant Partners of the Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church) votes for our Board of Ministry leaders and Delegates to the Annual Conference of the Southern Michigan Conference.
Board of Ministry is made up of nine members serving staggered three-year terms. We will be electing seven of those members this year, and Brian Philson and Bobby Pratt will remain on the Board through the end of their terms in 2018.
Annual Conference Delegates are elected for one year, to serve as representatives to the Annual Conference. Southern Michigan Conference is where the legislative process of the Conference (made up of 36 Free Methodist churches in the region) takes place. You will be electing five delegates and four reserve delegates (who will fill in if a delegate is unable to serve). Under our new by-laws, the Board of Ministry will appoint three from the Board to serve as delegates.
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I have a 10 month old baby boy. He was born with a wonderful head of dark brown/black hair. (And oh did I earn that head of hair he had with heartburn throughout the pregnancy..lol) But anyway- he lost his hair around 3-4 months old, except for the hair in the back pretty much stayed. It was straight when he was born, and it curled lightly when it was wet, but dried straight with a tiny bit of wave. The new hair that grew back was the same way. THen the back hair had some light curl to it, but it was almost like 'bed head" more than anthing. I felt like he was looking a little unkept, so I got him a haircut this past weekend, and now he looks like a big boy, with straight hair. (The light curls are gone.) At 10 months old, can I give up hope that he's going to have curls or when does baby hair start showing curl? His dad has very curly hair, and my hair is straight. Anyone have any thoughts on this? :) I just think it would be cute if his hair was curly, but I"m happy either way.
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The Eagle Excursion program works with first year students to develop leadership skills and show opportunities for student leadership on Carson-Newman's Campus. Students will participate in B.O.L.D. (Basics Of Leadership Development) training. It is experiential learning at its best for leadership development.
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[prMac.com] Braunschweig, Germany - Independent Developer Dennis Franke is proud to announce the release of Scoreboard for iPad 1.7, an update for his score keeping app. The update adds another optimized Scoreboard for Phase 10 and also a special feature to throw dices directly inside the app. The update is available immediately on the App Store.
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Smiles along the shores: Loop the Lake Festival sees biggest turnout yet
BEMIDJI -- The 17-mile ride around Lake Bemidji is no small task, but nearly 1,000 people took the challenge head-on as part of the Loop the Lake Festival on Saturday in Bemidji.
A total of 929 riders took part in the fourth annual event, from babies hitching a ride with their parents to experienced bikers cruising the trails to senior couples enjoying the ride together.
Even the weather cooperated, as the forecasted rain held off until after the event to keep everyone dry while they indulged in the food, music and scenery.
"It's perfect. People are happy and having fun," said Muriel Gilman, chairwoman of the steering committee for Loop the Lake. "The smiles, the whooping it up, seeing people here on their bikes and getting out and riding (are my favorite parts)."
Each year since the inaugural event in 2014, the festival has quickly expanded in size, beyond Gilman's expectations. While the first tour had a turnout of approximately 350 people, this year's 929 is proof of its impact -- and fun -- in Bemidji.
"Super pleased (with the turnout)," Gilman said. "It's very rewarding when I see people come in."
While both the start and finish line was at the Sanford Center, riders got to experience the best that Lake Bemidji has to offer around its shores. The path led past the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues downtown, through Diamond Point Park at Bemidji State and north toward Ruttger's Birchmont Lodge. Additionally, the trial brought participants through Lake Bemidji State Park and onto the Paul Bunyan State Trail, with stops for food and water, photo ops and live music all along the way.
Once the bicyclists braved the final stretch and conquered the loop, both the exhausted and the relieved crossed the finish line in triumph.
The same was true for Gilman and the festival committee, whose nine months of preparation paid off Saturday. For all the work that went into Loop the Lake, the 17-mile stretch was worth its distance in gold.
"It's a lot of work, but rewarding to see the smiles and fun it brings to Bemidji," said Gilman. "That's what we love. We just want to get people on their bikes."


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