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autocatalysis
A form of catalysis in which one of the products of a reaction serves as a catalyst for the reaction. Before the emergence of protein-based enzymes, which are the principle biological catalysts today, it is believed that a substance, such as RNA, may have served as both a replicator and an autocatalyzer in the first terrestrial life-forms.
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