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Templator Model of Chemical Self-Replication

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influx r
0.3
enzyme K
0.3
uncatalyzed
k
u
0.01
plot type
phase plot
time series
total time
time
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
r
is the ratio between the external reactant influx and the enzymatic output maximum rate. Thus, it is always less than unity.
k
u
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
k
u
is very small. Finally,
K
characterizes the enzymatic reaction that removes the templator from the reacting system.
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