# Is it legitimate to say that all living things have DNA?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 24, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legitimate-to-say-that-all-living-things-have-dna/482849 "2009-01-24T23:47:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legitimate-to-say-that-all-living-things-have-dna/482849/61 "2009-01-27T07:04:08Z")

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> [@brazil84](#):
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> Thank you. You might enjoy a short story called “The Library of Babel” written by Borges.

Brilliant. Thanks.

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