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In present cells nucleotides and amino acids are linked together in heteropolymeric sequences, rich in bioinformation. The genetic code analysis suggests that an incessant search for enhanced perfo...

The essence of the inversion concept of the origin of life can be narrowed down to the following theses: (1) thermodynamic inversion is the key transformation of prebiotic microsystems leading to their transition into primary forms of life; (2) this transformation might occur only in the microsystems oscillating around the bifurcation point under far-from-equilibrium conditions. The transformation consists in the inversion of the balance “free energy contribution entropy contribution” (as well as “information contribution informational entropy contribution”), from negative to positive values. At the inversion moment, the microsystem radically reorganizes in accordance with the new negentropy (i.e. biological) way of organization. According to this concept, the origin-of-life process on the early Earth took place in oscillating hydrothermal medium. The process was taking two successive stages: (1) spontaneous self-assembly of initial three-dimensional prebiotic microsystems composed mainly of hydrocarbons,...