Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word HYPERCYCLE
HYPERCYCLE
Definitions of HYPERCYCLE
- (hyperbolic geometry) A curve whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line.
- (chemistry) A system of self-replicating molecules, as an explanation for the self-organization of prebiotic systems.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using HYPERCYCLE in a Sentence
- In addition, Eigen's name is linked with the theory of quasispecies, the error threshold, error catastrophe, Eigen's paradox, and the chemical hypercycle, the cyclic linkage of reaction cycles as an explanation for the self-organization of prebiotic systems, which he described with Peter Schuster in 1977.
- However, even though this experiment proves the existence of cooperation among the recombinase ribozyme subnetworks, this cooperative network does not form a hypercycle per se, so we still lack the experimental demonstration of hypercycles.
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