Human flora

[Eric Nielsen]

Especially the flesh-eating kind.

Eric

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:


> I can see tossing mushrooms in with plants, but in that case, I'd put
> bacteria in with animals :)
>
> Also, it seems that "domain" has become quite standard as the taxonomic
> rank above kingdom. This should probably be included in the OED, which has
> the older
>
> ---
> c. Used by Pinkerton for a subdivision of the Mineral ‘kingdom’.
> ----
>
>
> BB
>
> On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Fungi were included in the plant kingdom until fairly recently:
> >
> > "Robert Whittaker
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whittaker>recognized an
> > additional kingdom for the
> > Fungi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus>. The resulting five-kingdom
> > system, proposed in 1969 by Whittaker, has become a popular standard and
> > with some refinement is still used in many works and forms the basis for
> > new multi-kingdom systems."
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)
> >
> > Nomeclature of life forms today is still in flux and is usually based
> upon
> > characteristics such as cellular structure and metabolism--which are not
> > obvious to the unaided senses. Most
> > people are probably comfortable with the old Aristotelian dichotomy of
> > Plant/Animal--Flora/Fauna.
> >
> > Eric* *
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Benjamin Barrett <GOGAKU at ix.netcom.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> ....The problem is that these flora are not plants or plant life (or at
> >> least mostly not so)....
> >
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