This (arguably unhelpful) phrase seems to be taught across schools all over the world. What are some other phrases like this that are common ?

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How will we know something extraterrestrial comes our way? They’ll have their own mitochondria, because something needs to power their cells, and it won’t be the same as ours.

New writing prompt, aliens show up and they are wildly different from us but they and all life on their planet also use the exact same mitochondria as us.

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