Bill Kirkpatrick wrote:
wrote:
Eh? Life is a constructive process. It frankly doesn't care if, or
when, "something runs out" if it has no biological use for that
particular "something". Thus, BGA, or anything else, simply cannot grow
for LACK of a required component.
I think that this is "lack" not in terms of BGA but in terms of
things (like higher plants) which compete with it for PO4 or
whatever. The analogy would be your room full of mice and
single elephant where there were 100 peanuts but only 1 cup
of water/day. In that context, the mice would eventually
outlast the elephant and establish a breeding colony due to
a "lack" of water. Yes?
You also state repeatedly that BGA fix their own nitrogen.
Is that true for all cyanobacteria? Just curious.
-coelacanth