Re: [HAPS-L] most complex cell

["Charlene L. Hartlaub" <charlene.newby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does this apply to the origin of life?
 
Charlene
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alan Magid 
To: HAPS 
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [HAPS-L] most complex cell

Ken-

Sorry for the off-topic response. I joined the thread after the original query had been truncated away.

But, my main point is to strictly avoid ?angels-dancing-on-heads-of-pins? scholastic disputations if you seek a scientific resolution to a question.
Unless it?s falsifiable by observation or experiment, an assertion ain?t science. 

-Alan



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From: Ken Saladin <ksaladin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:41:16 -0400
To: <HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [HAPS-L] most complex cell

At 01:17 PM 10/7/2006, you wrote:


An interesting proto-question but presently undefined. "Complexity" needs to
be defined in a way that permits observations to decide the issue, of
course. I don't know how to approach that since it is a mathematical notion
fundamentally, of which I know very little (My math ed stopped at a graduate
course in "diffyQ").

Nonetheless, I offer Paramecium tetraurelia as a viable candidate. Has two
distinct nuclei (one for sexual reproduction, and the other for the rest of
the week). 1000-fold polyploidy! Does all that any organism does inside a
single cell 0.1 mm long.




Paramecium is a great candidate for a cellular complexity prize, but Marilyn's original question was on the most complex human cell. 

Ken



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