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Entropy Perspectives of Molecular and Evolutionary Biology

2022-03-17

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Attempts to find and quantify the supposed low entropy of organisms and its preservation are revised. Absolute entropy of the mixed components of non-living biomass (around -1.6 x 103 J K-1 L-1) is the reference to which other entropy decreases would be ascribed to life. Compartmentation of metabolites and departure from the equilibrium of metabolic reactions account for 1 and 40-50 J K-1 L-1, respectively, decrea...

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Literature Corpus work: 8b15ad96-aa44-50e4-a95b-3a7e6b58a25f
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202203.0170.v2

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