Measuring heritability in messy prebiotic chemical systems
Tymofii Sokolskyi,
Sydney Gargulak,
Esau Allen
et al.
Abstract:A key question in origins-of-life research, is whether heritability, and thus evolution, could have preceded genes. While theoretical research has shown that out of equilibrium chemical reaction networks with multiple autocatalytic motifs can provide chemical “memory” and serve as units of heritability, experimental validation is lacking. We established conditions that may be conducive to these processes and developed methods to seek evidence of heritability. We prepared a food set (FS) of three small organic … Show more
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