Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4478703-20140329232552/@comment-241978-20141114174735

Xanton wrote:

Theenlightenedoned wrote:

Madlooney6 wrote: Anodites have no DNA. everything has DNA but, its wheather or not its a species and an intelligent species to have its DNA sample in the Omnitrix. No Anodites don't have DNA. Watch the show. They say it.

No, Dwayne said that in a Q&A session. It's never brought up on the show. In any case, Anodites not having DNA wouldn't be particularly strange, because logically most aliens would not use DNA since they don't originate on Earth. It is still reasonable to assume they have analogues to DNA, RNA and other biological macromolecules unless their biology is fundamentally different from conventional life.

Aliens like Wildmutt, Ditto and so on would either have literal DNA/RNA (indicating they originate from the same abiogenesis as Earthlings) or a chemically similar analogue but still follow the same basic principles (indicating they originate from a separate abiogenesis or split off before DNA/RNA developed). Pyronites, would probably have analogues to our macromolecules, but adjusted for the intense heat of their homeworld. Petrosapiens, being crystal-based but still capable of flexible movement (which crystals, by definition, cannot do), would probably have an extremely different biology from humans and pyronites. Sonorosians aren't even composed of conventional matter (being sound wave-based life and all), so their biology would be extremely different from humans, pyronites and petrosapiens. Anodites are a total mystery, since mana can apparently do anything including perfecting imitating human anatomy.