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The theory is proposed that the pyrimidines in extant nucleic acids are postenzymatic substitutes for their isoelectronic and isogeometric position 3-bonded purine analogs xanthine and isoguanine, which were sibling products in a preenzymatic de novo purine pathway.
An all-purine precursor of nucleic acids
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