Re: panspermia news

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 16:07:32 MDT


On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:26:50PM -0400, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Is life possible with right-handed amino acids and would it develop the same?
> Would the evolution be strikingly, different, despite the randomness of
> evolution?

As far as I know it doesn't matter which handedness you use, as long as
it is the same. Of course, you might want to have left-handed DNA for
completeness.

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