title: The fundamental chemistry of life. An attempt to define and identify the basic reaction responsible for life's creation and evolution.
abstract: All natural growth follows exponential characteristics which vary from a simple exponential equation (non-solid cancer, bacteria) to complex Gompertzian functions describing solid cancer and multicellular organisms. Like all chemical processes the reagents (energy sources of food) react during life to produce vital energy, but in addition also create the next generation of life. This latter reaction is unique in that a simple proportional increase in the reagents creates an exponential increase in products: it is the sole invariable criterion of all life. The target of combined ionising and non-ionising radiations in cancer cells appears to be identical with this fundamental exponential chemical reaction. Identification of this target as a system of anaerobic glycolysis suggests that life's first reaction is a unique one whereby a simple proportional increase in available glucose causes an exponential proportional increase in energy which is available solely for reproduction.
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006019:Glycolysis; D006128:Growth; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D000069497:Origin of Life