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16 - Where Is Life in the Universe?

Why This Universe?

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The Importance of Water in Life

Liquid water is sometimes called the universal solvent because it dissolves more substances than any other known liquid. This includes various salts and oxygen, carbon dioxide, sugar, ethanol,. The list goes on and on and on. And all of this is super essential to metabolism, not to mention things like protein folding and DNA base pairing.

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