Topic > Essay on Lake Vostok - 1324
No air, no sunlight, high concentration of oxygen and pressure 360 times that at sea level would be the conditions for a very strange life indeed. (Studinger, 2008) However, not only is there a fascination with what life exists, but also with what life has existed. Being isolated from the rest of the world for 14 million years would effectively neutralize external factors such as changing climate and dominant species from affecting any existing life forms. Such isolation would provide a very pristine snapshot of what life existed all those years ago, giving us a crucial link to what may be some of the earliest life forms on Earth: our earliest ancestors and the blueprint for our genetic makeup. (Bell and Priscu,
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