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The chemoton is an abstract model for life introduced by [[Tibor Gánti]] in 1971. Its aim was to define the minimal | The chemoton is an abstract model for life introduced by [[Tibor Gánti]] in 1971. Its aim was to define the minimal model of a living [[organism]]. | ||
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# Has to perform [[metabolism]] with its environment. | # Has to perform [[metabolism]] with its environment. | ||
# It must [[replicate]] itself. | # It must [[replicate]] itself. | ||
# It has to have a | # It has to have a polymer type subsystem carrying information. | ||
# It must have an [[autocatalytic]] system, which is connected to the metabolism and creates the stuff needed to grow its boundary and to replicate its information system. | # It must have an [[autocatalytic]] system, which is connected to the metabolism and creates the stuff needed to grow its boundary and to replicate its information system. | ||
Revision as of 04:59, 15 February 2007
The chemoton is an abstract model for life introduced by Tibor Gánti in 1971. Its aim was to define the minimal model of a living organism.
A living system:
- Has to be separated from its environment.
- Has to perform metabolism with its environment.
- It must replicate itself.
- It has to have a polymer type subsystem carrying information.
- It must have an autocatalytic system, which is connected to the metabolism and creates the stuff needed to grow its boundary and to replicate its information system.
Such a system may be called alive, since it can live, replicate in its proper environment and it can evolve, since there is an information system.
References
T. Gánti: The principles of life Oxford University Press 2003.