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1Evolutionary Biology Research Group, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525ED, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Chemistry & Biology
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
It has long been suspected that mineral surfaces may have been important in prebiotic chemistry. The recent demonstrations of extended oligomerization of nucleotides, amino acids and carbohydrates on mineral surfaces add support to the potential prebiotic importance of minerals, but leave a number of questions unanswered.

