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At pH at or below 7.8, coral cannot generate it's carbonate skeleton, and lots of other organisms are affected.

This is quite difficult, consider the following: Problem: Outside organisms keep contaminating your pools of algae.

What if past some level of technical advancement, organisms cease inhabiting the same scale as us.

Evolution is just a mechanical process that arises when you put self-replicating organisms in a noisy environment for a long time.

For second-wave bioinformatic analysis, stick to organisms that have a (semi) decent reference sequence.

Much as artificial evolution can be used to understand the dynamics of evolution without the long-time scales and messiness of actual organisms.

Genome annotation, in the absence of molecular work, is always boring because it can only find what is already known from other organisms.

Finding out that there's water on mars, or some single cell organisms on pluto, does nothing apart from fill a few future text books.

However, he has failed to grasp, or educate himself sufficiently, that gene transfer between organisms is in fact a common occurrence in natural ecosystems [0].

But I really expect that simple organisms (like, you know, plankton) will evolve to survive What makes you confident of that?

So, precautions should indeed be taken when releasing engineered organisms.

The interesting thing about these organisms is that they can take in energy poor forms of these elements that require energy to process into usable forms (e.g.

For an organism to "evolve to survive" a lot of individual organisms have to fail to survive.

The problem with "evolutionary" circuits is that 99.99% of them don't work very well (dead organisms).

I come back to "Cells are just organic nannites." We really are just a collection of very small organisms working together to reproduce.

If you accept that many-celled organisms can be conscious, and that eusocial colonies (ants, bees) behave more like intelligent organisms than any one member, it's not much if a stretch to say "hm, a country belongs on that scale".