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Fig. 5

From: Prebiotic Chemistry: What We Know, What We Don't

Fig. 5

Ether (a) and ester (b) lipids of biological membranes (R can be various small molecule constituents including phosphate). c Micrograph of cell-like boundary structures formed spontaneously from organic extracts of the Murchison meteorite. Fig. 5c image courtesy of NASA

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