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The true unit of life is not DNA and not the cell but the biosphere — the whole community.

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  1. Adam Frank

    Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester

    Because the bacteria, even though they're individual examples of life, and I believe this the true unit of life, it's not DNA, it's not a cell, it's the biosphere. It's the whole community.

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