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Lebendigen

English translation: satisfies the criteria of life

08:42 Aug 25, 2012
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
German term or phrase: Lebendigen
"Ein chemisches Beispiel für ein solches Minimalsystem ist das Chemoton-Model, das ein stabiles, sich selbst erhaltendes (autopoietisches) System beschreibt. Es wird einem definierten Set an Kriterien des „Lebendigen“ gerecht und kann als Modellsystem für jede Art von biologischem System – wenn auch auf einer sehr grundsätzlichen Ebene – herangezogen werden. Das Modell hat dabei nicht den Anspruch das Phänomen „Leben“ in seiner Gänze zu erklären, aber gibt einen klar definierten experimentellen Rahmen für die Chemisch-Synthetische Biologie."

"the living/livingthings/life as we know it"??

TIA for your input
Jonathan MacKerron
English translation:satisfies the criteria of life
Explanation:
The chemoton is an autocatalytic chemical supersystem that satisfies the criteria of life. It consists of three autocatalytic subsystems: a metabolic subsystem (self-reproducing chemical cycle), an informational subsystem (template polymerization cycle) and a boundary subsystem surrounding the former two (membrane). The chemical reactions of the three subsystems are coupled stoichiometrically, which coordinates the growth and division of the cell thus helping the system to be autocatalytic as a whole.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...


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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_four_criteria_for_lif...

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=206923


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I wouldn't think quotation marks would be necessary if it's for a scientific community.
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Kim Metzger
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Local time: 15:58
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3 +4satisfies the criteria of life
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satisfies the criteria of life


Explanation:
The chemoton is an autocatalytic chemical supersystem that satisfies the criteria of life. It consists of three autocatalytic subsystems: a metabolic subsystem (self-reproducing chemical cycle), an informational subsystem (template polymerization cycle) and a boundary subsystem surrounding the former two (membrane). The chemical reactions of the three subsystems are coupled stoichiometrically, which coordinates the growth and division of the cell thus helping the system to be autocatalytic as a whole.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...


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Note added at 12 mins (2012-08-25 08:54:24 GMT)
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_four_criteria_for_lif...

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=206923


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Note added at 22 mins (2012-08-25 09:04:47 GMT)
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I wouldn't think quotation marks would be necessary if it's for a scientific community.

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 15:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 91
Grading comment
Many thanks
Notes to answerer
Asker: perhaps "criteria for life", with the quotation marks doing some of the work??


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marga Shaw: http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/korthof66.htm
1 hr
agree  Coqueiro
6 hrs
agree  Anne Schulz: The original sounds to me like "criteria for one out of several possible ways to define life" (rather than *the* criteria of life), so one might need to add some sort of limitation or reservation
11 hrs
agree  barbarameyer: criteria for the definition of life
1 day 20 hrs
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