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Quantum-Mechanical Modeling of Mutations, Aging, Evolution, Tumor, and Cancer Development

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In this chapter, we will describe the quantum-mechanical models to accurately describe the process of creation of spontaneous, induced, and adaptive mutations. These models will be used to describe the processes of evolution and aging. The various theories of quantum evolution and epievolution will be studied as well. We then describe the Markovian chain-like classical and quantum-mechanical modeling of mutations and aging. In the same section, the hybrid quantum-classical biological channel model with memory is described as well. After that, various classical, semiclassical, and quantum models of cancer development are studied. The final section concludes the chapter.

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Djordjevic, I.B. (2016). Quantum-Mechanical Modeling of Mutations, Aging, Evolution, Tumor, and Cancer Development. In: Quantum Biological Information Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22816-7_5

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