Co-polymerization of glycol nucleic acid monomers with dicarboxylic acids in simulated early Earth drying environments readily gives rise to plausible prebiotic xeno nucleic acid co-polymers ...

Nucleic acids are made of biopolymers, which are naturally-occurring, repeated sets of monomers (making polymers) that then create nucleotides, which form nucleic acids.

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Nucleic acids and proteins are both linear polymers; long, unbranched strings of similar-looking components, like paper chains at a child’s party or beads on a necklace.

Proteins are natural polymers made up of amino acids, and nucleic acids ... A single macromolecule can consist of hundreds of thousands of monomers, according to the Polymer Science Learning Center.

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Nucleic Acids These polymers appear to carry the pattern of living matter from one generation to the next. Their basic chain consists of sugars joined by phosphates.

To convert the PDKs back to their monomer building blocks, the group uses 5 M sulfuric acid. The researchers could recover more than 90% of the triketone and polyamine monomers after 12 h in the acid.