Basic trope: Alien genetic material is not like Earthly DNA.
- Straight: Maura have triple helix DNA.
- Exaggerated : Its DNA is star shaped.
- Downplayed: It has a double helix, but a different number of bases, or different bases than A, G, C, and T.
- Justified: The Maura have developed in a totally different way than humans.
- Inverted: Alien DNA has a double helix, but humans don't.
- Subverted: They were misinterpreting what Maura DNA was.
- Double Subverted: Precisely because they have strange DNA and had been confused.
- Parodied: DNA is basically the instructions on how to create a Maura.
- Zig-Zagged: Some aliens have double helix DNA, others do not.
- Averted: Maura DNA is similar to humans.
- Enforced: The author wanted to demonstrate how alien the Maura were.
- Lampshaded: "This DNA is weird"
- Implied: Multiple representations of DNA are shown, and only one of them is human DNA.
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- Deconstructed: The Maura's DNA makes them unable to survive environmental conditions on Earth, or eat human food.
- Reconstructed The maura produce their own food and / or have environments in which they can survive.
