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From first principles, a simple model was derived to describe the reduplication of the molecular structure as a sequence of stages whose probabilities can be estimated using the general theory of molecular transformations. It was shown that the genetic information transfer in time (the phenomenon of life) for a long period is impossible without simultaneous “phenomenon of death” and that taking into account the features of transition states in reactions (quantum beats) leads to self-oscillations.
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Original Russian Text © L.A. Gribov, 2006, published in Biofizika, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 761–764.
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Gribov, L.A. A simple first-principles model of reduplication. BIOPHYSICS 51, 671–674 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350906040257
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350906040257