• UnequalExchange@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Just because it needed certain ingredients/environment to survive & replicate that archaea & bacteria don’t need didn’t make it not “alive.”

    The double negative is super throwing me off . Can you ELI5 please.

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      The descendants of LUCA need certain conditions in order to survive and replicate. LUCA also needed certain conditions in order to survive and replicate, they just happened to be different ones from the conditions that its descendants need. But that difference doesn’t make one any more “alive” or “not alive” than the other.