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Life and Entropy Production

Nobody disputes that life creates entropy, but whether living systems augment or diminish the rate of entropy production is still an unresolved question. We shall use several simple models for cyclic biochemical reactions to calculate entropy production and efficiency of free-energy conversion in a steady state. Our goal will be to explore whether actual operation of these cycles can be better modeled by requiring minimal or maximal entropy production. Main attention will be devoted to bioenergetics of bacterial photosynthesis.

life; entropy production

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