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hoverboverer
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1 year ago
Oh yeah, forgot:
(4) There are good theoretical reasons (and empirical evidence) for a limit to mutability. Mutation rates vary between organisms - but the mutation/genome copy rate is fairly uniform over a wide range of organisms. Organisms with large (functional bits of) genomes and low reprodu...
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2. The 'extremo-phile' orgs you refer to are often very recently derived from more familiar stuff. There are even bacteria adapted (apparently) to living in uranium ore deposits.
If there were novel forms of microscopic life popping up all over the place would we recognise it for what it is? I m...
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Re: 'new' life:
1. I wasn't particilarly thinking of it being 'easily consumed' - but perhaps not able to compete well for the resources that it needs. Take your point about novel orgs (or orgs in novel environments) often get to outrun their predators. However if the resources they need are good...
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@RomulanMastermind The short answer is that I don't 'know' (anything) for sure, We certainly don't have to infer multiple origins for life on Earth and, though we still might find life elsewhere in the solar system, there are no obvious signs of it.
Gary's understanding of Biology seems pretty s...
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Hi
Agree that life is almost certainly a very rare event. However, there is a problem here with inferring process from pattern. Say that de-novo life was common: The problem for 'new' life on earth is that it has to compete with much,much more sophisticated stuff that is already established. Perh...
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Picking my Borlotti Beans - Claire's Allotment part 149
Time to pick my borlotti beans - so how did they do?
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hoverboverer said:
Howdy,
I've grown them for the last two years - and mine are definately climbers. Grown them for the beans themselves as we have more than enough runners. Will give the pods a try though- are they stringy?