autocatalytic

From the macro, the economy has just about reached the point of being what I would call autocatalytic, in that it's feeding itself.

CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2001 2001

Jagers op Akkerhuis said, is the set of so-called autocatalytic enzymes, which are chemicals that react in a self-perpetuating cycle.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Jagers op Akkerhuis said, is the set of so-called autocatalytic enzymes, which are chemicals that react in a self-perpetuating cycle.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

The evolution of multicellularity therefore qualifies as an "autocatalytic" process; once set in motion, it drives itself exponentially from then on.

Ancient Predator Revealed! 2009

My premise did not exclude communities or require replication that is "autocatalytic".

Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

While I have little doubt that there was an RNA World which preceded the DNA World, it seems reasonable to assume that something such as autocatalytic polypeptides would have preceded the RNA World.

New Trouble for Wells's "Icon of Anti-Evolution #1"... - The Panda's Thumb 2005

While I have little doubt that there was an RNA World which preceded the DNA World, it seems reasonable to assume that something such as autocatalytic polypeptides would have preceded the RNA World.

New Trouble for Wells's "Icon of Anti-Evolution #1"... - The Panda's Thumb 2005

It's also the simplest kind of autocatalytic set, with only a pair of elements working together; there's nothing to say there couldn't be three interlocking cycles, or four, or a hundred, instead of just two.

Pharyngula 2009

My point to Raevmo centers around the way a process relates to autocatalytic RNA.

A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer) 2009

My point to Raevmo centers around the way a process relates to autocatalytic RNA.

A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer) 2009