Abstract
The attention of biologists is directed to the analogy between a metabolizing system and an electrical circuit with feedback and finite time delay. Periodicities can be explained on the basis of linear chemical kinetics and linear differential equations, although the latter are of infinite order.
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Finn, R.K. Accounting for periodicities in biology. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 16, 181–182 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478374
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478374