An adult could be described as a collection of cells...what of it? Organism is defined as:
1. a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes. (a zygote meets this definition)
2. a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus,protistan, or moneran. (a zygote meets this definition)
4. any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole. (a zygote meets this definition)
If a zygote meets the definitions of an organism then it is, by definition, an organism. Words mean things.
You seem incapable of independent thought....if the book doesn't say it, it appears that you are unable to make a connection...this is due to a fundamental ignorance of biology on your part. The fact that your source doesn't say that a zygote is an organism is meaningless...if it meets the definition of an organism then it is, by definition an organism...and it doesn't matter whether your text says that it is capable of asexual reproduction for a short time, it in fact, by the definition of asexual reproduction, asexually reproduces. Your failure to grasp these facts is due to an ignorance on your part....not the biological facts that a zygote is in fact, an organism, and that for a short period of time, we are capable of asexual reproduction.
The fact that you continue to try to press the point is further evidence of your lack of knowledge in the realm of biology...You have lost this debate....failure to grasp that is just more evidence of your lack of knowledge. You will not be able to put forward a biological point that will prove your position...I have spent years looking for such points...none exist.
What came before or after is irrelevant. Fission is the asexual process by which one organism divides and becomes two. Arguing ahat came before or comes after constitutes a logical fallacy called a red herring....the fact of fission is all that matters.
Not necessary...by definition fission is the process. One organism divides and two organisms are the result....two organisms where there once was one...no sexual activity involved. Your need to actually see the words when the reality is literally the definition once again brings your biological ignorance into high relief.
What does the word grandmother have to do with the biology of human development? If red herrings are all you have (and they are) then you have no valid argument.
Of course we do....I however don't invoke his name in a passive aggressive attack on adversaries.
I don't find the name offensive...and again, you poison the well by suggesting that I do. People with passive aggressive tendencies rarely recognize the trait in themselves....it is, after all, a camouflage mechanism that allows them to vent their anger without actually acting angry.
