The Informational Substrate of Chemical Evolution: Implications for Abiogenesis

摘要: A key aspect of biological evolution is the capacity living systems to process information, coded in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and used direct how cell works. The overall picture that emerges today from fields such as developmental, synthetic, biology indicates information processing cells occurs through a hierarchy genes regulating activity other complex metabolic networks. There an implicit semiotic character this way dealing with based on functional molecules act signs achieve self-regulation whole network. In contrast cells, chemical are not thought being able yet they must have preceded organisms, evolved into them. Hence, there been prebiotic molecular assemblies could somehow order regulate their own constituent reactions supramolecular organization processes. purpose essay then reflect about distinctive features non-living matter, organisms for was possibly rooted particular type (here referred autonomous systems), which self-sustain reproduce organizational closure building blocks.