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on Aug 9, 2011
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NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they...
I agree about not getting too excited. But to be precise in this case they are talking about nucleobases [1] which are building blocks of DNA. Amino acids [2] are building blocks of proteins.
[1] -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase
[2] -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid
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[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid