Biology is not my job, so it is not up to me to come up with a better [classification] system. Let's look at an example: Animal, vegetable or Mineral. Is the Pearl produced by a claim a animal or a mineral?
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Mineral... Just like living bone is an animal but dead bone is a mineral...
The classification system is designed so we can relate animals to each other via groups. The classification system switched around a lot when we could verify genetically that some animals despite looking the same are radically different.
For instance the Hyrax and Elephant are relatively close relatives. One is a large guinea piggy sort of creature, the other is the biggest animal on land. They are related via their evolutionary...
I don't know why I even bother.
"Is the Pearl produced by a claim a animal or a mineral?"
When I finish my fried claims, you may clear the table.
what the heck?
Also: clam =/= claim.
A pearl is a Mineral from a CLAM. I have no idea what animal a CLAIM may be - perhaps in the fundie dictionary.
I think I've hung here too much. I instantly thought of the "No Greater Joy (than beating up your kids)" Pearls, probably because it's capitalized.
We also have fungi as a group, haven't we? In some ways more like animals than vegetables, right?
I am assuming you meant 'clam' not 'claim'. As far as I am aware pearls are purely mineral deposits layered around some irritant inside the shell of an oyster. I may be incorrect, however, and clams may produce them too. I would suggest that they are mineral since they are composed of minerals and not living cells, and have no organic function within the organism. Not hard, was it?
“Biology is not my job,”
“so it is not up to me to come up with a better [classification] system.”
“Let's look at an example: Animal, vegetable or Mineral. Is the Pearl produced by a claim a animal or a mineral?”
Here’s a better one: A tree’s root burrows through dirt and rock. A bear rips the tree out of the ground. Is the remaining hole mineral, as it’s dug through rock, or is it plant, as the plant did the digging, or is it animal, as an animal rippted it out and made it a hole?
Confused?
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