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Chapter 01

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Describes the formation of polycytidylate.

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Growing evidence supports the idea that the emergence of catalytic RNA was a crucial early step.

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Junk DNA and microRNA genes

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Mattick, J. S. (2003). Challenging the dogma: the hidden layer of nonprotein-coding RNAs in complex organisms. BioEssays, 25, 930-9 [DOI: 10.1002/bies.10332] [PubMed: 14505360].