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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Exp Med Biol. 2017;966:103–148. doi: 10.1007/5584_2017_93

Figure 18.

Figure 18

Summary of how the surprising aspects of aaRS evolutionary history actually helped to facilitate the stabilization of quasi-species bifurcations associated with the earliest genetic coding. At each level of the Linderstrøm-Lang hierarchy [145], from coding strands to secondary, to tertiary structure and mechanism. Bi-directional coding decisively differentiates between the two aaRS Classes.