Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2001-05-12
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
26 pages, 10 figures, submitted to J Theor Biol
Scientific paper
As the first step in an investigation of the origin of genetic information, we study how some species of molecules are preserved over cell generations and play an important role in controlling the growth of a cell. We consider a model consisting of protocells. Each protocell contains two mutually catalyzing molecule species ($X$ and $Y$), each of which has catalytically active and inactive types. One of the species $Y$ is assumed to have a slower synthesis speed. Through divisions of the protocells, the system reaches and remains in a state in which there are only a few active $Y$ and almost no inactive $Y$ molecules in most protocells, through selection of very rare fluctuations. In this state, the active $Y$ molecules are shown to control the behavior of the protocell. The minority molecule species act as the information carrier, due to the relatively discrete nature of its population, in comparison with the majority species which behaves statistically in accordance with the law of large numbers. The relevance of this minority controlled state to evolvability is discussed.
Kaneko Kunihiko
Yomo Tetsuya
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