Leviathan.Chaosx said:
Luz said:
That DNA in the organism found doesn't differ very much from our own. There was one element in every other organisms' DNA that was not found in the organisms' habitat so it substituted arsenic. It's certainly significant but it wasn't radically different from everything else on Earth. According to what I have read, arsenic has some properties that are similar to phosphorus that made it an ideal element to substitute for.
Apparently this discovery may not be as significant as claimed.
Scientists poke holes in NASA’s arsenic-eating microbe discovery
More than likely this is just some form of Archaebacteria, maybe even more advanced. Only reason why I say that it could be Archaebacteria is because in the article it says that it was found near volcanoes. Now I'm not saying that they were created through Spontaneous Generation, (
Disproving Spontaneous Generation), but it's possible that it's a "new" type of bacteria.
Oh, and to the whole "Eating Arsenic" shenanigan, most cells will only allow certain nutrients through the plasma membrane, so it's possible that they did
TRY to feed it arsenic along with phosphorous, and it just didn't accept the Arsenic.
