Article
Evolution of genetic codes through isologous diversification of cellular states.
Artificial life - 1 Jan 2000
Takagi H, Kaneko K, Yomo T
Abstract excerpt
Evolution of genetic codes is studied as change in the choice of enzymes that are used to synthesize amino acids from the genetic information of nucleic acids. We propose the following theory: the differentiation of physiological states of a cell allows for a choice of enzymes, and this choice is later fixed genetically through evolution. To demonstrate this theory, a dynamical systems model consisting of the...
Topics
- Biological Clocks
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cell Physiological Phenomena
- Enzymes
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Code
- Genotype
- Mitochondria
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acids
- Phenotype
