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		slphil on March 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from t... 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.

vadimberman on March 23, 2018 [–]

There's RNA and possibly others even on this planet: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331698/

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