You are a paleontologist and you have been invited to serve on a NASA astrobiology panel that ...

You are a paleontologist and you have been invited to serve on a NASA astrobiology panel that speculates on what features of life are so universal that they should also apply to separate origins of life on other planets.
 
  Which of the following features is the most likely to be universal to all life even if it originated independently in other places than Earth?
  a. Evolution will eventually produce feathers in some organisms.
  b. All life uses DNA to encode genetic information.
  c. Evolution will always result in multicellular organisms.
  d. Lineages of organisms will tend to evolve more complex forms during the course of their evo-lution.
  e. C and D.