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Did life start from a comet?

Updated on: 18 August,2009 04:01 PM IST  | 
MiD DAY Correspondent |

Did life start from a comet?

Did life start from a comet?

Astronomers say that they have found an amino acid, one of the building blocks of life, on a comet.

The amino acid in question is Glycine, the smallest of the 20 amino acids commonly found in proteins.

The theory that life originated in space is nothing new as this article written in 2002 points out.




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