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DryRain

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1. Antarctica's buried lakes are the most potent opportunity for us to view

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2013, 03:32 PM

Jan 2013

aquatic life and DNA on Earth from hundreds or perhaps thousands of centuries ago, (millions of years ago, at least).

A study of DNA structures in aquatic micro-organisms which have modern living parallels could bring advances in DNA technology, not to mention possible other areas of insights into archeological research, biomedical implicatons, and ways to discover or view previous forms of long-dead former life on Mars or other planets.

This is like striking the mother-lode in DNA archeology.

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