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KINETIC TRAPS. "The second process that allows behavioral chemistry is the real possibility that macromolecules end up in kinetic traps during their folding. When the lifetimes of these traps are of the same order of magnitude as the time in which these molecules need to function, then a second type of behavioral expression becomes possible." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

DAISY CHAIN BEHAVIOR. "The molecular paradigm views behavior as composed of discrete units (responses) occurring at moments in time and strung together in chains to make up complex performances. The discrete pieces are held together as a result of association by contiguity." https://lnkd.in/dzst9qf View in LinkedIn

BOXES AND BEHAVIOR. "Clearly, the advent of compartmentalization (protocellular life) would further enhance the establishment of a bounded genotype, thereby firmly entrenching behavior. The key to this first aspect of behavioral chemistry is that the information is physically bondable such that the possible states of the system can be quantized (discrete)." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

SELF-REPLICATING MOLECULES. "The “self” is now clearly defined; however, it can be a single self-replicating molecule or a network of related cooperators. Here we are using the example of RNA as the informational polymer, but the same conclusions were to apply if other polymers, or even inorganic lattices or compositional sets of macromolecules such as lipids, were the ancestral genotypes." http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/4/313/htm View in LinkedIn

"MECHANISMS for self-replication can be autocatalytic, where a molecule acts as a template to make a direct copy of itself, or cross-catalytic, where two or more molecules of different informational content amplify one another." http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-642-11274-4_1423 View in LinkedIn

TOO SIMPLE. "The crystals used in the study simply copied information verbatim from layer to layer as they grew, which in itself is insufficient to kick-start a Darwinian evolutionary process." https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR ECOSYSTEMS. "Chemists have shown that a group of synthetic enzymes replicated, competed and evolved much like a natural ecosystem, but without life or cells." https://lnkd.in/dwfMZfe View in LinkedIn

TYPES OF COPIABLE INFORMATION. "Our theoretical work suggests that not just linear sequences but also patterns in two dimensions, similar to wallpaper patterns that repeat every so often, could also be replicated," https://lnkd.in/dF6far5 View in LinkedIn

"MINIMAL SELF-REPLICATING SYSTEMS typically consist of three components: a product molecule, and two substrate molecules that become joined to form another product molecule. An important characteristic of self-replicating systems is the ability of the product to catalyze the formation of additional product, resulting in autocatalytic behavior." https://lnkd.in/dZUKQUR View in LinkedIn