Cech Demonstrates That RNA Can Act as an Enzyme
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Genetics
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Colorado
- Date: 1982
Article abstract: Cech demonstrated that RNA can act as an enzyme to catalyze biochemical reactions, thus providing evidence of the process of chemical evolution.
Summary of Event
In the 1920’s, Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin and John Burdon Sanderson Haldane independently proposed that the early Earth atmosphere lacked oxygen but contained an abundant amount of hydrogen-containing compounds, such as ammonia, methane, water vapor, hydrogen gas, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. They both proposed that these gases...
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