life forms that emerged from some replicating entity that did not belong to the nucleic acid family, but were able to complexify and evolve toward replicating entities of greater DKS, would likely utilize the same universal concepts that nucleic acid-based biochemistry discovered. Depending on the extent to which that other life form had evolved, it would also express network characteristics, and may have discovered the replicative value of a cell structure, in which the cell’s functional parts with its replicative and metabolic capabilities would be incorporated. The theory of life presented
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