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Subject: Re: Life Classification ...further comments
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Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 22:48:01 EDT
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One question that interests me is this (I don't know the answer):
If you define a species as a group of populations among which genetic
information is freely exchanged, then what are the species of bacteria?
Maybe the whole kingdom is a single species by this definition?!

Paul Gallagher