• Title of article

    Why metabolic systems are rarely chaotic

  • Author/Authors

    Tjeerd olde Scheper، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    145
  • To page
    152
  • Abstract
    One of the mysteries surrounding the phenomenon of chaos is that it can rarely be found in biological systems. This has led to many discussions of the possible presence and interpretation of chaos in biological signals. It has caused empirical biologists to be very sceptical of models that have chaotic properties or even employ chaos for problem solving tasks. In this paper, it is demonstrated that there exists a possible mechanism that is part of the catalytical reaction mechanisms which may be responsible for controlling enzymatic reactions such that they do not become chaotic. It is proposed that where these mechanisms are not present or not effective, chaos may still occur in biological systems.
  • Keywords
    Control of chaosRate controlBiological complexityChemical chaos
  • Journal title
    BioSystems
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    BioSystems
  • Record number

    498062