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Figure 1–2. Evolution tree of living organisms (After Alberts et al., 1986).
The interest towards the coacervate drops (Fig. 1–3) has grown
strongly. Intense studies were carried out resulting in the production of
various coacervates not only of gelatin and gummi arabica but also from
other organic polymers — albumins, histones, lipoids, nucleic acids,
chlorophyll, etc. According to data of Evreinova et al. (1975) more than 300
different coacervate systems are known in the literature.