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What does it mean when scientists say that living organisms share a universal genetic code?

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It means that everything in the universe has the same main genetic code, or how you know a frog is a frog.
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Living organisms share a universal genetic code means that all organisms shared a same genetic to some extent.
This because many of them believed that in the past we came from the same exact organism

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