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Re:Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from the Atac... by slphil on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:56AM (#16655462)
I don't know any other hypothetical building blocks for complex life. It could possibly be the case that the alternatives are too unstable and that alien life would be made of something remarkably similar to (but obviously not identical to) Earth DNA.
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Re:Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from the Atac... by vadimberman on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:26AM (#16657255)
There's RNA and possibly others even on this planet: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331698/
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