| Muller saw genes as fundamentally endowed with two properties: that of autocatalysis and that of heterocatalysis. |
| Toward the end of the 1930s, Max Delbrück had the intuition that the question of autocatalysis, that is, replication, could be attacked through the study of phage, i.e., viruses replicating in bacteria. |
| It seems that amino acids are indeed the result of autocatalysis. |
| He demonstrated the processes of synthesis and autocatalysis that enabled such small samples to be multiplied indefinitely. |
| Dr. Wachtershauser believes the origin of life lies in autocatalysis, the emergence of some natural chemical process, like the pyruvate-producing one, in which the products help the reaction go faster. |
| That is, we would need to know the exact concentration of the photoproducts in order to determine the rate constant for autocatalysis. |
