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First, my apologizes for knowing next to nothing about sponges. I should at least watch some SpongeBob... You could really say this about any organism. Every organism has their own microflora, including the human. Maybe you think I'm stretching what you said a lil' too far (and in my...

I don't think there's really any debate about it. It really doesn't matter whether or not you include 0, as long as you're consistent. As for Peano's Axioms, one of the axioms is to assume 0 (an arbitrary constant symbol) is a natural number. If you want to reaximoize (yes, i invented a word)...

Definitions. Given a sample space, the probability of the entire sample space is 1, the probability of any element in the sample space is [0,1].

Horizontal gene transfer is very common amongst microbials. Or perhaps if we're misunderstanding your question, you could restate it?

Yes, the definition of "species" poses many problems, such as the one you just described. I'm sure there's an entire wikipedia entry on "species" with all the varying definitions. In any case, since you're trying to use math, let me give you a more realistic model of how biology works. Suppose...

Hi eric, First of all, PM is a wonderful book, and if you have the time and patience you ought to read it. As for your dilemma concerning mathematical logic... It seems to me that as you're a physics grad student, you want to learn physics through a reductionist/mechanistic approach (...

Nonono, you got it all wrong. Two types of problems exist, computable problems and non-computable problems! In any case, complexity theory doesn't mean "hard" or "complex" in the way humans use the word every day. It specifically refers to "how fast" (polynomial time?) a non-deterministic...

Also see: http://journalofcosmology.com/Contents3.html

Wikipedia is always an excellent source. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelis-Menten_kinetics Not sure what level of kinetics you're looking for but MM is always a good place to start, and they don't dumb it down (has scary dx/dt stuff)! There should be enough links to other articles...

Clearly the death executioner gene ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/UniGene/clust.cgi?ORG=Dm&CID=1719 ) is responsible for all deaths. On a more serious note, you should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_theory_of_ecology a small portion of it: "Small animals tend to grow fast, breed...

Your question is - given a tiny seed that is planted in the ground and many years later... where on Earth did the tree come from!? Surely the mass of a tree is much greater than the mass of the seed! Where did all this solid material come from? The simple answer is carbon dioxide from the...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae#Relationship_to_higher_plants

I actually played go for the first time in years this earlier this month! (I don't like playing online) I remember I learned it back in college after reading somewhere that Conway created the surreal numbers to analyze the end game of go... If anyone is in San Diego and wants to play a game...

Because it's the first letter in the word "perimeter".

I'm probably being awfully biased here, but I'd say punctuated equilibrium is what most respectable biologists would agree upon as of the past few years.