English Explanatory Dictionary

chemoton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fundamental unit of life; a computational abstraction of a protocell, having the properties of metabolism and self-replication and a bilipid membrane.

Word forms

chemoton chemotons

Etymology

Short for chemical automaton; introduced by Hungarian theoretical biologist Tibor Gánti.

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