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To: Nebullis
Photosynthesis is not an organism, even less a species.

Gratuitous "Gasp!" and "No kidding!"

The tree sequence is this

"We did a kind of tree analysis of all 188 genes to determine what the best evolutionary tree was. We found that a fraction of the genes supported each of the different possible arrangements of the tree. It's clear that the genes themselves have different evolutionary histories,"

Maybe alamo-girl's lawn is not so far-fetched after all. And this also demonstrates that when you seek a tree, you find a tree, at least as far as it pertains to tree analysis.

239 posted on 11/24/2002 7:44 PM CST by AndrewC


To: AndrewC

And this also demonstrates that when you seek a tree, you find a tree, at least as far as it pertains to tree analysis.

Nope. You can analyse the data without the assumption of a tree and a tree will emerge. It's a tangled mess at the root, (a root ball, really), the trunk is very wide (lots of slush) but the branches are well defined. If you look for a lawn, you find a tree.

341 posted on 11/25/2002 10:12 AM CST by Nebullis
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To: Nebullis

If you look for a lawn, you find a tree.

Except in the case of photosynthesis.

344 posted on 11/25/2002 12:39 PM CST by AndrewC
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Then your 351 which this is answering

So you see we are talking about the photosynthesis tree the scientists could not find. Instead they found a St. Augustine lawn.
356 posted on 11/25/2002 2:08:30 PM PST by AndrewC
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So you see we are talking about the photosynthesis tree the scientists could not find.

I guess YOU were.

360 posted on 11/25/2002 3:14:39 PM PST by Nebullis
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