Neither has the ability to speed up any chemical reaction, in this case the rate at which the bonds linking the nucleotides are formed. Thus neither can be called a catalyst. Since both the rate of production and the rate of destruction would tend to increase as the concentration tended to increase, no net effect on the overall concentration would result. Now let us pause once again to see what is wrong with Prigogine's assumptions. Firstly , no polynucleotide can direct the synthesis of a protein.
All enzymes are proteins, and consist of long chains of amino acids.
The translation of this information, and the actual synthesis of the protein, requires much, much more. DNA is only one of many different kinds of molecules required for the synthesis of a protein. To assert that a DNA molecule could direct the synthesis of a protein in the absence of the entire complex apparatus required for this task is simply absurd. Furthermore, to say that the process was much simpler in the first step toward a living thing is totally contradicted by the evidence. For example, amino acids cannot align themselves along either a DNA or an RNA molecule.