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The concept of a living system as autonomously self-organizing within its boundary, generating and continually regenerating its own components, thereby maintaining the molecular and supramolecular networks that | The concept of a living system as autonomously self-organizing within its physical boundary, generating and continually regenerating its own components, thereby maintaining the molecular and supramolecular hierarchy of interacting networks that self-organize and self-perpetuate the system. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:17, 22 February 2010
The concept of a living system as autonomously self-organizing within its physical boundary, generating and continually regenerating its own components, thereby maintaining the molecular and supramolecular hierarchy of interacting networks that self-organize and self-perpetuate the system.