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If some of the basic building blocks of life could be replaced with other elements, that would dramatically expand the types of environments on other planets that might support life.

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At this stage the structure, though still just a featureless ball of cells, has started to differentiate into the body's three basic cell types (known as endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm).

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