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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by amelius on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @05:04PM (#11957017)
> That's the most interesting point to me, I deeply believed that organisms share the same basic set of genes.

Yes, isn't there a universal gene that encodes the RNA polymerase enzyme? I.e., the machinery that transcribes DNA into RNA?

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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by dnautics on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:47PM (#11958169)
probably the ribosomes and tRNAs are the most universal-ish genes.

RNA Pol is very diverse across clades.

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