The second answer considers the replicators (rings) themselves as the alphabet, and their organization along the fiber as the information. Here the information potential is much larger because the fibers can contain hundreds of rings. Heredity (i.e. the copying of fibers) for this type of information might be less easy to achieve than for the copying of rings. Still, some compositional information is maintained and propagated when a "parent" fiber breaks under agitation to produce two "daughter" fibers . As we have shown herein the nature of the fiber affects the growth of the fiber end, which amounts to a rudimentary form of (probably limited) heredity. There are parallels between this behavior and the GARD (graded autocatalysis replication domain) model of self-assembly driven replication and evolution .