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q-bio.BM2017
Evolutionary advantage of directional symmetry breaking in self-replicating polymers
Hemachander Subramanian, Robert A. Gatenby
Due to the asymmetric nature of the nucleotides, the extant informational biomolecule, DNA, is constrained to replicate unidirectionally on a template. As a product of molecular ev…
q-bio.BM2016
Evolutionary advantage of a broken symmetry in autocatalytic polymers explains fundamental properties of DNA
Hemachander Subramanian, Robert A. Gatenby
The macromolecules that encode and translate information in living systems, DNA and RNA, exhibit distinctive structural asymmetries, including homochirality or mirror image asymmet…