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To: ClearCase_guy

How can you tell when bacteria speciate? Define "species" as it applies to bacteria. Hint: the biological definition of species generally is accepted to be a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Bacteria reproduce asexually.


84 posted on 12/09/2004 11:43:02 AM PST by stremba
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To: stremba

Some bacteria do it sexually (or with plasmids) and some (even the same ones) may do it asexually.


91 posted on 12/09/2004 11:55:09 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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