title: [Specific features in realization of the principle of minimum energy dissipation during individual development].
abstract: Realization of the principle of minimum energy dissipation (Prigogine's theorem) during individual development has been analyzed. This analysis has suggested the following reformulation of this principle for living objects: when environmental conditions are constant, the living system evolves to a current steady state in such a way that the difference between entropy production and entropy flow (psi(u) function) is positive and constantly decreases near the steady state, approaching zero. In turn, the current steady state tends to a final steady state in such a way that the difference between the specific entropy productions in an organism and its environment tends to be minimal. In general, individual development completely agrees with the law of entropy increase (second law of thermodynamics).
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authors: Zotin
mesh_terms: D004734:Energy Metabolism; D019277:Entropy; D048788:Growth and Development; D008954:Models, Biological; D013816:Thermodynamics