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The discovery of RNA-based enzymatic activity by Thomas Cech’s and Sidney Altman’s laboratories was a momentous event that led Walter Gilbert to the concept of an “RNA world”—a primitive ancient stage of life that existed before the appearance of DNA and protein molecules. A year later, Gilbert formulated “the exon theory of genes,” which hypothesized that introns are very ancient genetic elements...
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