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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Look at hubble picutres... millions of galaxies with millions of suns and potential solar systems.

There is life out there- I can’t wait to see what form it takes. DNA? Carbon Based? Cell Structure? maybe none of those.

A VIRUS is a entirely different life form, did you know?


2 posted on 05/12/2009 7:02:12 AM PDT by Mr. K (Is it too early to start calling this the “The Failed Obama Administration”?)
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To: Mr. K

A virus is NOT an entirely different life form.

A virus has a DNA sequence that gets turned into RNA (or just RNA) that in the context of the right molecular machines will code for an amino acid sequence to make a functional protein.

A human being has a DNA sequence that gets turned into RNA that in the context of the right molecular machines will code for an amino acid sequence to make a functional protein.

The only fundamental difference is that the virus uses some other cells molecular machines and raw resources.

Some say a virus is not alive, but nobody credible claims they have anything to do with alien life. It is simply an example of the SAME kind of life we see here on Earth, just reduced to its most minimalist form.

;)


106 posted on 05/12/2009 7:46:15 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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