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Say, in the context of finding microbial life on Mars (i.e., organisms that evolved from the start with six nucleotides, not just taking current terrestrial organisms and swapping out the nucleic acids and ribosomes).

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[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Came to the comment section for your 3rd point, even with the “wobble” we have several single point mutations that are disastrous having only 2 BP per codon would be much worse and if anything I would assume the better medium would have more BP per codon with more redundancy