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Re: [Phys-l] mushrooms ... and other terminology issues



Many protozoa, including amoebas, are predators, and are decidedly not animals.

 
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From: Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>
To: Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] mushrooms ... and other terminology issues


On 2011, Aug 09, , at 07:58, John Denker wrote:


The Venus fly trap is an ambush predator as surely as an ant
lion is.


Not according to this definer:

see Zoology, etc. definition:  must be an animal.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/predator

bc
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