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F G Mosqueira1, S Ramos-Bernal, A Negrón-Mendoza
1Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia, UNAM. Cd. Universitaria, A.p. 70-487, 04510, D.F., México, Mexico.
Bio Systems
|September 27, 2000
Abstract:
We construct a probabilistic model with the aid of the Markov chain formalism to describe and give a physico-chemical justification to an oligomerization process of a set of amino acids under certain prebiotic conditions. Such chemical process shows a remarkable bias in the polymer products that our model can explain. Some predictions and limitations are also discussed.
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