Category: Prokaryotes?!
Are we really going to talk about these?
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An unseen organism and a hypothesis about the origin of viruses
What is a parasite? A definition that often comes up is this one: Parasites, in a phrase, are predators that eat prey in units of less than one. Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (2014) The sentence is funny, but in my opinion it’s not really a good definition. First, what about “units…
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Prokaryote/Eukaryote
Where we explore the relatively young history of a fundamental divide in the tree of Life. A deliberately short history of systematics Systematics is the science of classifying life forms. As with almost anything in science, the first traceable attempts at classifying life date back to Aristotle. In his treaty The History of Animals (4th…
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