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dnautics
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
And since p and z are synthesized in the lab how would this escaped organism eat?
gherkin0
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It would have to have evolved or be designed to be able to synthesize them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide#Synthesis
sciencerobot
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Life finds a way.
dnautics
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Why hasn't life found a better way to fix nitrogen yet? Nitrogenase is a godawful enzyme... Wastes three hydrogen gas molecules for each turn of the crank.
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