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Additional sequences from other conifers and more primitive plants are needed to pin down the timing of this transfer.
Nucleic acids had emerged as replicable information carriers and primitive catalysts (Joyce 2002), yet their functional potential was constrained by their structural homogeneity and lack of reactive groups.
Hong Kong’s third largest island has a population of only about 12,000; it is still largely undeveloped, and life on Lamma, if not totally primitive, is close to the essentials.
Moreover, chimps are the civilized ones, while humans--slow, clumsy, embarrassingly hairless--are a primitive joke.
In F9 cells with constitutive ectopic expression of TAF II 135, targeted degradation is delayed, primitive endodermal differentiation is impaired and a novel differentiation pathway is induced.