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A hypercycle is a new level of organization whereby self-replicative units are connected in a cyclic, autocatalytic manner. The self-replicative units are themselves (auto)catalytic cycles.〔Eigen, M., and P. Schuster. 1978. “Part A: Emergence of the Hypercycle.” Naturwissenschaften 65:7–41. http://www.springerlink.com/index/N1431278021QVP77.pdf.〕 The hypercycle is a specific model of the chemical origin of life, pioneered by Eigen and Schuster. From random distributions of chemicals, the hypercycle model seeks to find and grow sets of chemical transformations that include self-reinforcing loops.〔Padgett, J.F., D. Lee, and N. Collier. 2003. “Economic production as chemistry.” Industrial and Corporate Change 12:843. http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/843.〕 Hypercycles are very similar with autocatalytic systems in that both represent a cyclic arrangement of catalysts which themselves are cycles of reactions. The difference of hypercycles is that the catalysts that constitute them are themselves self-replicative. ==See also== * Abiogenesis * Autocatalytic set * Quasispecies model * Chemoton 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hypercycle (chemistry)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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