From the macro, the economy has just about reached the point of being what I would call autocatalytic, in that it's feeding itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2001] Reference

Jagers op Akkerhuis said, is the set of so-called autocatalytic enzymes, which are chemicals that react in a self-perpetuating cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

My premise did not exclude communities or require replication that is "autocatalytic".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

The evolution of multicellularity therefore qualifies as an "autocatalytic" process; once set in motion, it drives itself exponentially from then on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Predator Revealed!] Reference

The distinction is autocatalytic RNA duplicates itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abusing Science] Reference

Some random RNA sequences even have autocatalytic properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

Bradford: The distinction is autocatalytic RNA duplicates itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abusing Science] Reference

My point to Raevmo centers around the way a process relates to autocatalytic RNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer)] Reference

They aren't a big advantage for a simple procell with a simple autocatalytic metabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Protozoan and Front-Loading] Reference

Are we talking about organic life, or any kind of generalized autocatalytic feedback loop?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

They're living autocatalytic feedback loops, subject to modification by environmental pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Such suggestions make sense of the autocatalytic and evolutionary dimension of the genetic material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene] Reference

We already know that random sequences can have autocatalytic function, so that's not a significant objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abusing Science] Reference

But when he started talking about the Oort Cloud and "autocatalytic feedback technology" I saw Carol's eyes glaze over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Then don't invent a "history" based on autocatalytic scenarios. discussion of abiogenesis will be inevitably unproductive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abusing Science] Reference

Dembski and Marks 2009a mention “a simple self-replicating molecule, an autocatalytic set, or a lipid membrane” as examples of biological targets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another smackdown of Dembski & Marks - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Their autocatalytic function allowed them to reproduce as units of transmission and thus to connect the genotype of one generation to that of the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene] Reference

We know that primitive replicators can evolve into primitive communities of cooperating molecules (partners for the ribozyme, but no longer autocatalytic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

What has actually been demonstrated is a capacity to engineer both replicators and initial conditions in a controlled environment to observe autocatalytic behavoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

Any autocatalytic system transfers information i.e. initial conditions to its progeny so that daughter systems will eventually reach the same state as their parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biosemiotics?] Reference

With random selections of such polymers, you will in some cases get autocatalytic subsets of polymers that can "close the circle," catalyzing one another's synthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Protozoan and Front-Loading] Reference

The Origin of Life via the RNA World is a “genes first” model, in which the replicator arose and gradually evolved by improving its autocatalytic replication activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abiogenesis: How plausible are the current models? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

You interpret the results of random autocatalytic activity as a "code" and call it an "information system", then jump to the conclusion that there must have been a "coder".    From Wordnik.com.  [Attached to Strings] Reference

Bradford: What has actually been demonstrated is a capacity to engineer both replicators and initial conditions in a controlled environment to observe autocatalytic behavoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

Thus, the structure of the DNA double helix had all the characteristics that were to be expected from a molecule serving as an autocatalytic hereditary entity (Chadarevian 2002).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene] Reference

It was what scientists call an autocatalytic reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Totten's Weblog] Reference

Next thing to tell you is that a cell really is a collectively autocatalytic whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

More such collectively autocatalytic sets can evolve to novel sets so evolution can occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

More, any hope of forming autocatalytic sets of polymers such as the results of Ghadiri and.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Eventually, so many reactions are catalyzed that a giant catalyzed reaction network forms which is collectively autocatalytic.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

After the first autocatalytic sets and simple replicators, but before the first cell walls, was the entire Earth a single organism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

In "The Origins of Order" I describe the emergence of a connected catalyzed set of metabolic reactions to support the autocatalytic set.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

He showed that bacteria and fungi do not spontaneously appear; he knew nothing of progenotes, chemical replicators, and autocatalytic sets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

Molecular autocatalytic feedback loops, basically, with contingent programming written into their reproductive protocols. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

The set as a whole is collectively autocatalytic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Collectively autocatalytic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Fig. 3). that comprises its autocatalytic primary cleavage site Arg-Lys-Thr-Arg-Arg.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference