A nucleic acid-based translation system where the components of a nucleic
acid multicrossover molecule serve as message, translation device and
part of the translated product. One continuous strand of a nucleic acid
multicrossover molecule acts as a message, which nucleic acid crossover
strands, functioning together as a translation device, translate into
nucleic acid product strands. Organic molecules appended to the backbone
of the nucleic acid product strands can also be polymerized to form a
polymer sequence of appended organic molecules.