Odd Bacteria Incorporate Arsenic Into DNA Structure

I was visiting a lake that I used to go to as a kid and found this out and I thought I'd share it:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...science-space/

According to NASA there is a bacteria living in the lake that can not only survive high concentrations of arsenic, but it can actually use it in it's DNA structure. I don't know much about this stuff but it seemed pretty interesting to me.

Originally Posted by dirtsurfr

It's porlly just something that fell off a space ship during refueling.

Then you'll like the last paragraph of this article. cn

http://www.livescience.com/9142-arse...ostmortem.html