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The biology on this globe is carbon-based. Some have speculated that there could be silicon-based forms of biology elsewhere in this universe. There yet could be plasma-based biology. There could be incorporeal biology. There could be other probabilities.
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In 2004, two scientists at the University of Manchester in England isolated a carbon-based material called graphene, with some unusual properties.
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carbon-based life
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