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The evolutionary significance of phase-separated microsystemsThe source, preparation, and properties of phase-separated systems such as lipid layers, coacervate droplets, sulphobes, and proteinoid microspheres are reviewed. These microsystems are of interest as partial models for the cell and as partial or total models for the protocell. Conceptual benefits from the study of such models include clues to experiments on origins, insights into principles of action, and, in some instances, presumable models of the origin of the protocell. The benefits to evolution of organized chemical units are many, and can in part be analyzed. Ease of formation suggests that such units would have arisen early in primordial organic evolution. Integration of these various concepts and the results of consequent experiments have contributed to the developing theory of the origins of primordial and contemporary life.
Document ID
19760063754
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Fox, S. W.
(Miami, University Coral Gables, Fla., United States)
Date Acquired
August 8, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1976
Subject Category
Space Biology
Accession Number
76A46720
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGR-10-007-008
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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