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That does not make it life 2.0. It makes it an extremely old branching of DNA.High five! I'll give you that one! I'm good that it's related! Arsenic and phosphorus are very similar chemically.
But arsenic impersonating phosphorous in DNA, is unknown to us in life. As "life as we know it".
But DNA that started replicating, had to go two ways. Phosphorus, or Arsenic. Almost all life went for phosphorus. So this bacteria, if not shown to be alive elsewhere, could be an indigenous species. Life 2.0...![]()
Life 2.0 is referring to a second genesis which would teach us a ton about how life formed. Anything that shares an ancestor does very little to help with how life formed.