A few miles away, several students clutched watches while testing a green strand of time fuze.
In one laboratory model of a replicating RNA system, a reverse transcriptase first produces a DNA strand by using a specific ribozyme as a template, and a second DNA polymerase makes multiple copies from the DNA, thereby amplifying the original RNA strand thousands of times as the cycle is repeated.
During mitochondrial DNA replication in vertebrates, for example, the leading strand and lagging strand remain single-stranded for differing periods of time, leaving one strand more prone to mutations.
Like tree rings or light from a distant galaxy, the strands of hair are time capsules.
In particular, it would be interesting to investigate how an initially prepared confining string separates into fractionalized strands as a function of time, a process that is also relevant from a condensed matter perspective in the context of quantum dimer models.
In turn, the asymmetric pattern in base composition could be explained by the long-standing strand-displacement model of mtDNA replication: in this asymmetric process a portion of the H strand would remain a period of time in single strand state, which could lead to different mutational bias in H and L strands [ 61].
In particular, we convert from the input that is encoded by the initial concentration of the input DNA strand, to time, and then back again to the output encoded by the concentration of the output DNA strand at equilibrium.
The physics and visual parameters were then put through Vezer, an audiovisual, timeline-based midi sequencer that would morph the appearance of strands over time, allowing it to take on a life of its own.
The leading strand is in a single-strand state for a longer period of time than the lagging strand, making it more susceptible to deamination-based mutation [ 38] and lowering the overall fidelity of replication [ 39].
