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Usefulness of information in bistable system and Dyson model for the origin of metabolism

K Ishida1

  • 1Department of Applied Chemistry, Ibaraki University, Japan.

Journal of Theoretical Biology
|September 21, 1990
PubMed

Keywords:
chemical system organizationmetabolic evolutionbistable dynamicsinformation theory in chemistry

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