I remember that a few years back scientists were all atwitter about some new species discovered (in the ocean maybe?) that didn’t have DNA.
Since then … zilch, nada. Were the original observations found to be wrong?
My Google fu is failing – I’m not finding the right set of search terms.
What’s the latest?
Maybe this …?
Discredited here …
Scooped by Duckster.
Search terms I used were “life without DNA”
I don’t recall any announcement of life without DNA. As indicated in the posts above, the biggest news recently was the apparent discovery of a bacterium that substituted arsenic for phosphorus in its DNA, a claim that has since been refuted.
Original thread from 2010, the year we made contact.