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"on earth there are organisms in the deep sea that have completely different biology": Not sure what you mean by that. There are bacteria that metabolize diffe
by mcswell 3y ago
"on earth there are organisms in the deep sea that have completely different biology": Not sure what you mean by that. There are bacteria that metabolize different things than what the bacteria up here metabolize, but they (and we) all use DNA, and with a couple exceptions they use the same codons to encode the same amino acids and start/stop. As far as anyone knows, that coding is completely arbitrary, i.e. the codons could have been entirely different. The fact that they are not entirely different implies a common origin.
Lots of other biochemical similarities, too.