Chemoton
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Chemoton
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The term chemoton refers to an abstract model for the fundamental unit of life introduced by Hungarian theoretical biologist Tibor Gánti. Gánti conceived the basic idea in 1952 and formulated the concept in 1971 in his book The Principles of Life. He suggested that the chemoton was the original ancestor of all organisms. The basic assumption of the model is that life should fundamentally and essentially have three properties: metabolism, self-replication, and a bilipid membrane. The metabolic an
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Abstract model for the fundamental unit of life
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemoton
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2024-04-15T00:14:05Z
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