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on categorizing & diversity.

Submitted by ekim on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 4:27pm.

the last few classes when we discussed life and spatial scales, it always seemed to have some unexpected twist by the end of the lessons: maybe there are no sharp boundaries between living and non-living things, maybe there IS a limit to spatial scales (& therefore, the universe).

but today in class, we actually categorized living things into autotrophs and heterotrophs. we made sharp boundaries.

but thanks to fungi, we're back where we started: there are no sharp boundaries because fungi took its place in between the autotrophs & heterotrophs.

& i actually like it without sharp boundaries because not everything's black and white...there's always a gray area.

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