Symmetries in Science IV: Biological and Biophysical Systems

Symmetry in Synthetic and Natural Peptides.- Local and Global Model of Fibonacci Plant Symmetries.- Structures, Forms, Patterns, and Perception: A Brain-Theoretic Point of View.- The Emergence of Living Functions from Molecules.- Biomolecular Handedness and the Weak Interaction.- Nonlocality and Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics versus Localizability and Symmetry-Breaking in Protobiology.- Evolutionary Meanings of the Primary and Secondary Structures of the “UR-RNA,” a Primitive Possibly Self-Replicating Ribo-Organism Commonly Ancestral to tRNAs, 5S-rRNA, and Virusoids.- Influence of Nucleic Acid on Racemisation of Peptide Synthesis by Water Soluble Carbodiimide and its Relevance to the Origin of Genetic Code.- Asymmetry and the Origin of Life.- Some Ideas on Evolution and Symmetry Breaking of Biosphere on Earth.- Origin of Trace Element Requirements by Living Matter.