Templator Model of Chemical Self-Replication
Templator Model of Chemical Self-Replication
For the last twenty years, chemists have been searching for chemical self-replicating molecules. This Demonstration shows plots of the concentrations of a self-replicating molecule and its components according to a proposed model called the Templator model. The parameter is the ratio between the external reactant influx and the enzymatic output maximum rate. Thus, it is always less than unity. is the ratio between the uncatalyzed rate constant and the templator rate constant, so it measures the effectiveness of the catalyst. From experiments it is known that is very small. Finally, characterizes the enzymatic reaction that removes the templator from the reacting system.
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