Say, in the context of finding microbial life on Mars (i.e., organisms that evolved from the start with six nucleotides, not just taking current terrestrial organisms and swapping out the nucleic acids and ribosomes).

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    But wouldn’t that be offset by the potential errors avoided in reducing the size of the genome by a third?