Re: [asa] Lab speciation

> Question. Under what definition of a species are these mutated e-coli a new
> species?

What's a "species" in bacteria is highly problematic. There are
general guidelines that microbiologists use, but it's quite difficult
to draw a line, especially as bacteria seem to swap DNA around fairly
indiscriminately.

> Won't some people maintain that this is just micro evolution which they
> accepted all along, after all it occurred in a micro organism. :'(

Yes, they already use that line all the time (except for the
micro-organism joke part).

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Dr. David Campbell
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