Article Title: News From NASA: Life Comes In Other Flavors. No Kidding…
Written By: Sandra Hanks
This article is presented to us in an informal way. The author speaks to us about a new discovery that NASA has made. Life has been discovered in Mono Lake California. What’s so special about this? That this microorganism completely breaks the rules of life, which is that all living things are composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur, not arsenic (which is a poisonous chemical). according to the author of this article, whom says according to NASA, this little micro organism changes Arsenic into Phosphorous in it.
1. What did you learn today as you read that you did not know before? What surprised you? Explain why it surprised you.
What surprised me the most about this article is the fact that this new organism completely breaks one of the most important rules of life, that carbon has to be the main component in order for it to live. Arsenic is extremely poisonous to humans, as well to living creatures, yet this little guy can live off of it. This brings to mind how many other organisms are out there among us that we don’t even consider as life. Also, now with this new discovery, every biology book in the world has to be rewritten. The “law of live” as now been counteracted.
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