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Tokyo Institute of Technology

Figure 2

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Bacteria and other living things are composed of a complex set of chemicals. As alien life may be fundamentally different from Earth-life, it may be difficult for future space probes to tell if complex chemical mixtures are derived from living or non-living processes.

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Josef Reischig

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