Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

Exercise 10

Mars Is Alive Imagine this futuristic scenario: Life has been discovered on Mars and shown to contain a new type of macromolecule, named marsalive. You have been hired to study this new compound and want to determine whether marsalive is a structural or an informational macromolecule. What features would you look for