Biopolymers and cell. 2009; 25 (5): 403 - 423

Biopolymers and cells on the level of microbial architecture. 2. Parallel life, parallel but not life, nonparallel and not life, but what? What is life?

V. A. Kordium, E. V. Moshynets

Institute of molecular biology and genetics NAS of Ukraine
150, Zabolotnogo Str, Kyiv Ukraine, 03680

A question concerning theoretical limits of what we call life has been raised since the discovery of cell-like bodies of 0.1–0.01 µm size. In connection with that, a conception of life and possibility of its applicability for different spatially localized objects in nature are analyzed.

Keywords: consensus of cell, evolutionary mechanisms, auto-assemblage, matrix synthesis.