Hypercycle
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Hypercycle may refer to:
- Hypercycle (geometry)Hypercycle (geometry)In hyperbolic geometry, a hypercycle, hypercircle or equidistant curve is a curve whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line.Given a straight line L and a point P not on L,...
, a line of equal distance in hyperbolic geometry - Hypercycle (chemistry)Hypercycle (chemistry)A Hypercycle is a new level of organization whereby self-replicative units are connected in a cyclic, autocatalytic manner. The self-replicative units are themselves catalytic cycles. The Hypercycle is a specific model of the chemical origin of life, pioneered by Eigen and Schuster...
, a kind of reaction network prominent in a theory of the self-organization of matter, see Manfred EigenManfred EigenManfred Eigen is a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.-Career:...
and quasispecies modelQuasispecies modelThe quasispecies model is a description of the process of the Darwinian evolution of certain self-replicating entities within the framework of physical chemistry...