Re: Hierarchal vs Non-Hierarchal Interfaces to Biological Taxonomy

paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote:

> Can't resist jumping in, even though I know nothing of the topic - it
> seems that there are many relations, apparently many of them are
> unexplored so far.

Indeed. It's part of what makes biology so interesting. Flowering plants can produce strange and wonderful hybrids for example.

What do you do it a bacterium appears to have half of its genome like bacterium X and half from (distantly related) bacterium Y.

And let's not even get into viruses.

I remember writing an essay for my degree - "What is the fundamental unit of evolution - A gene, an operon, an organism, a species or an ecosystem"

Paul...  

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