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One Virus to Rule them All Monday, August 11, 2008 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> Biology
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One of the fundamental questions in science is "what is life?", a question particularly pertinent of late with the search for signs of life on Mars and the advances in developing synthetic life in a lab. Scientists have devised many complex answers to the question, but basically most scientists would agree that a "living" creature must be able to produce a variety of useful structural units (proteins), carry a genetic code (DNA), and reproduce. (source: dailytech.com)
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