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Most probably they would be fundamentally different in classification from any Bacteria/Fungi on earth.
by xkjkls 5y ago
Most probably they would be fundamentally different in classification from any Bacteria/Fungi on earth.
- bdamm 5y agoThis would be the exciting thing. If there really is fungus growing on the surface of mars, or even some life growing in the recesses of the rover, then getting samples and obtaining DNA (if the DNA is even the same structure) would almost certainly show that there are common ancestors, or there aren't. If there are common ancestors, then panspermia is all but proven. If there aren't common ancestors, then it is proven that life can evolve more easily than we thought, and the great filter becomes really shocking. Either way, big result!