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Wet-dry cycles cause nucleic acid monomers to polymerize into long chains.
Paper summary
Reports acid-catalyzed nucleotide polymerization during wet-dry cycles involving thin water films or droplets. Experiments investigate an environmental route from monomers to longer chains relevant to prebiotic chemistry.
Relevance to the project
A reference for cyclic environmental forcing enabling complex structures. Could motivate controls separating environment-driven assembly from a pattern's own maintenance feedback.
Polymer formation alone does not demonstrate replication or a complete origin-of-life pathway.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc11626162
- Archived version
- Europe PMC hosted article; publication/manuscript status is specified in source XML
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc11626162/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.