Entities

... feed of each other and depend on each other. However, symbiosis does maybe not quite cut it, because to my knowledge, in a symbiosis the separate entities are feeding off each other, depend on each other (beneficial or otherwise), but they are still separate. They don't build a whole. The accounting ...

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... basically single-letter variations in the human DNA sequence. In the past years, several million SNPs have been identified by private and public entities. The SNP Consortium (TSC), representing a group of large pharmaceutical companies and not-for-profit organisations, keeps a public database ...

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... sudden emergence of diverse forms at a new level of complexity. The relationships between major groups within an emergent new class of biological entities are hard to decipher and do not seem to fit the tree pattern that, following Darwin's original proposal, remains the dominant description of ...

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Antibiotics have no effect on viruses. Antibiotics are biologic products obtained from fungus and other biological entities used in the treatment of bacterial diseases. Antibiotics target the cell wall and replicating proteins of the bacteria to destroy (lyse) them.

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This is the form and cogency of you and Dean's argument. Asking questions with invalid presuppositions, does not support realism about fictional entities. seeing you admit genetic cant answer the question as to why/how a virus gets to the DNA in the first place can you just answer the simple question ...

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