On two quantum approaches to adaptive mutations in bacteria

Details On two quantum approaches to adaptive mutations in bacteria On two quantum approaches to adaptive mutations in bacteria

2008-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/0805.4316v4

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

35 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, 1 Appendix. This version was accepted in the NeuroQuantology Journal. Format has been adjusted

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I compare two quantum-theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of adaptive mutations, termed here Q-cell and Q-genome. I use 'fluctuation trapping' model as a general framework. I introduce notions of R-error and D-error and argue that the 'fluctuation trapping' model has to employ a correlation between the R- and D- errors. Further, I compare how the two approaches can justify the R-D-error correlation, focusing on the advantages of the Q-cell approach. The positive role of environmentally induced decoherence (EID) on both steps of the adaptation process is emphasized. A starving bacterial cell is proposed to be in an einselected state. The intracellular dynamics in this state has a unitary character and I propose to interpret it as 'exponential growth in imaginary time', analogously to the commonly considered 'diffusion' interpretation of the Schroedinger equation. Addition of a substrate leads to Wick rotation and a switch from 'imaginary time' reproduction to a 'real time' reproduction regime. Due to the variations at the genomic level (such as base tautomery), the starving cell has to be represented as a superposition of different components, all 'reproducing in imaginary time'. Adidtion of a selective substrate, allowing only one of these components to amplify, will cause Wick rotation and amplification of this component, thus justifying the occurence of the R-D-error correlation. Further ramifications of the proposed ideas for evolutionary theory are discussed.

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