If You Were to Prove That the RNA Molecule Was

question 35

Essay

If you were to prove that the RNA molecule was a component of the first cells, how would you do that?

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Definitions:

Positive Autocorrelation

A statistical property of a series indicating that values close together in time are positively correlated and tend to move in the same direction.

Durbin-Watson Statistic

A statistical measure employed to identify autocorrelation within the residuals of a regression analysis.

Independence of Errors

An assumption in statistical models indicating that the error terms are not correlated with each other.

Durbin-Watson Test

A statistical test used to detect the presence of autocorrelation in the residuals from a regression analysis.