General Suggestions Thread! V2.0

[Sundance]

What I find strange is that there's also an herb that makes Kelotane, which has silicon in it, which wouldn't normally be found in a plant.

A plant from earth, which these obviously aren't. Silicon and carbon are the two bonding elements that can form life (That we know of, I mean seriously there has to be heaps more in the universe).

This is due to both elements being tetravalence, as in they can only accept 4 electrons on their outer shell.
This "set-up" allows for long chains of things, in regards to life, these long chains are amino acids, which by no surprise were the first things that formed on planet earth in it's infancy.
Silicon may have similar valency but behaves remarkably different as a compound to carbon, and thus are far more likely to form crystalline structures than anything else. Silicon is thus considered inorganic.
However, we only know a fraction of compounds, and an even tinier fraction about life, so to rule this out would be contradictory to the practise of SCIENCE.
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I'm just fascinated by life concepts and terraforming.
So yeah. Alien plants may well have inorganic compounds in it, this could be due to a huge number a factors on the home planet, whether it be weak/strong magnetic fields, atmospheric, different amino acids, different evolution, the list goes on and on.