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Old 03-12-2010, 10:21 AM
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Well, back to the topic. The announcement has been made and it is what was suspected: microbes that have substituted As for P in their chemistry. Instread of phosphate chains they have arsenate chains in their RNA and DNA. I wonder now whether these organisms if kept away from P for long enough would find P toxic the same way we find As toxic. That would truly be arsenate about.
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