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(Science: botany) Any plant that is growing in a place where a human wants a different kindof plant or no plants at all.


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Re: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... 04:56 PM Negative For consistent MISREPRESENTATION of legitimate science as supporting ID. Needs to learn about the peer-review process and how it weeds out hogwash like cell "intelligence" as he interprets it! And for thinking creationresearch.org has valid science on its site. My rebuttal ...

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by GaryGaulin
Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:50 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... or combinations of variations help an organism to survive and reproduce. Some don't. Most are pretty neutral. Nature selects those that help, and weeds out those that don't - perhaps not quickly, but statistically over time, this is what happens. New species don't arise overnight. Imagine a species ...

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by wbla3335
Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:19 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Views: 16432

Re: mystery plant in CT

... after a couple of weeks the mystery plant sprouted and I transplanted it to it's current pot when it started to looked interesting. usually just weeds or grasses spontaneously sprout in my pots but this is the first time I got something that has flowers.

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by sumarty
Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:18 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: mystery plant in CT
Replies: 4
Views: 1000

C3 and C4 plants

simplyfied is that C4 (weeds) are more effective on the production of drymatter than C3 (plants except cactaceae and another ones) and C3 makes the normal photosynthesis cicle (krebs)-C4 do it easier. you'll never see a C3 Plant growing ...

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by Cristgonz
Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:49 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: C3 and C4 plants
Replies: 37
Views: 75421

Polygenic traits

Natural selection weeds out genes that are unsuitable to survival, and preserves genes that are favorable.

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by alextemplet
Fri May 02, 2008 4:47 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Polygenic traits
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Views: 1624
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