Re:The Grayness of the Origin of Life
by gus_massa on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:03PM
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> I doubt a heart can learn but maybe it can.
That's a very interesting question! (Do we have here some biologist that can try it?)
The difference between an isolated organism and a part is sometimes no so clear. For example in Clonal Colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony Is each trunk of Pando a different organism? Why not each branch? (Plants do very nasty things to other plants, but in slow motion. It's nice to see time lapses videos of plants "fighting".) Most examples of clonal colonies are plants, some of them have specialized members and some have identical members. If you prefer animals, one nice example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war
That's a very interesting question! (Do we have here some biologist that can try it?)
The difference between an isolated organism and a part is sometimes no so clear. For example in Clonal Colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony Is each trunk of Pando a different organism? Why not each branch? (Plants do very nasty things to other plants, but in slow motion. It's nice to see time lapses videos of plants "fighting".) Most examples of clonal colonies are plants, some of them have specialized members and some have identical members. If you prefer animals, one nice example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war