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The text ‘Goswami and Todd (1997) and Ogryzko (1997) have proposed that adaptive mutations may be generated by the environment-induced collapse of the quantum wave function that describes DNA as a superposition of mutational states. For such a mechanism to be feasible, the evolving DNA wave function must remain coherent sufficiently long for it to interact with the cell’s environment’ from (Melkikh 2013), is a copy-paste from (McFadden and Al-Khalili 1999).
E.g., a living cell.
E.g., DNA.
in slightly different words, one cannot prepare nucleotide inside a living cell in a specific tautomeric form, whereas one can prepare a living cell in starved state.
E.g., BDS predicts that the biasing of stochastic events (at the cellular or molecular level) towards a more adaptive outcome is a natural property of living cells (QBCL). However, for every particular case of such phenomenon, one can alternatively suggest a specialized molecular-biological mechanism.
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Ogryzko, V. Comment on Masanari Asano et al.: A model of epigenetic evolution based on theory of open quantum systems. Syst Synth Biol 8, 161–163 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11693-013-9129-z
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