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- noun Plural form of
ribonucleotide .
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Furthermore, although Powner and colleagues 'synthetic sequence yields the pyrimidine ribonucleotides, it cannot explain how purine ribonucleotides (which incorporate guanine and adenine) might have formed.
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D. Sutherland, Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions, Nature 459, 239 (2009). doi: 10.1038/nature08013.
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Furthermore, although Powner and colleagues 'synthetic sequence yields the pyrimidine ribonucleotides, it cannot explain how purine ribonucleotides (which incorporate guanine and adenine) might have formed.
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Second, the reaction that Sutherland used to produce ribonucleotides involved numerous separate chemical steps.
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First, the precursors of ribonucleotides are some of the most likely molecules to form under the conditions of the primitive earth.
Stephen Meyer's Bogus Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Ribose then combines with bases and phosphate to produce D-ribonucleotides.
A Design Process 2008
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Ribose then combines with bases and phosphate to produce D-ribonucleotides.
A Design Process 2008
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Even minerals could not achieve on a macroscopic scale one desirable separation, the resolution of D-ribonucleotides from their L-enantiomers.
Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The DNA of the bacteriophage synthesizes its own messengers with the aid of ribonucleotides synthesized by its host and of the enzymes of its host.
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Ochoa's enzyme produces ribonucleic acids from ribonucleotides having twice the ratio of phosphoric acid residues as that contained in ribonucleic acid.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 - Presentation Speech 1964
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