| kazadoom said: and yet it is still e. coli. Write when it miraculously becomes something else. That has and never will be proven. |
It is only "still" e. coli because we classify it as such. But who's to say we don't define e. coli as an organism that exclusively uses glucose as a carbon source and this new "evolved" organism uses citrate? They only call it e. coli still because the experiment was based off original e. coli cultures, and there hasn't been enough hindsight to say that this new organism is something different. Do you think that when man first became a biped, he turned around and looked at the generation before him and said they were something else?
If you want to get technical, an organism has set guidelines that defines what it is. And if that changes, by definition, it is a new organism. BAM evolution, in the most fundamental sense of the theory
