The shadow biosphere is a theoretical group of microbes that are RNA based, not carbon based, or have a different set of amino acids. These microbes might be hidden deep within the earth or in other similarly hard to get to places.

Would microbes in the shadow biosphere still be a part of the Earth's biosphere?

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