Fig. 2: Effect of constant and fluctuating environmental conditions on the polymerization of RNA catalyzed by a clay surface (comp.I).
From: Polymerization and replication of primordial RNA induced by clay-water interface dynamics
A Distribution of abundances of ssRNA k-mers (monomers, dimers, etc) and B maximum polymer length distributions over constant environments (clay-nt parameter α is constant with time). C Distribution of abundances of k-mers and D maximum polymer length distributions over six fluctuating environments (α varies with time): “sin” stands for sinusoidal oscillation, “sq” for square wave oscillation and “rand” for random fluctuation. If not said otherwise in the axes, α0 = 0.8, A = 0.5, T = 2500. Every simulation was repeated 100 times.
