- Joined
- Jun 25, 2008
- Messages
- 8,080
- Reaction score
- 3,918
- Location
- Canada
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
It appears that you can not comprehend the differences between a "cell" and an "organism."
That's because there is no difference.
It's true, that for the brief point in time that a zygote is only one cell,... that it is "both" a cell and an organism,... There's still no (logical) comparison between a "zygote" which is a complete organism,.. and a cell of any other kind (heart, lung, skin) that is little more than a component of a larger 'organism.'
Your use of the word "complete" is not scientific, just a reference to an opinion. A protein is not "complete" until it has all 20 amino acids; a cell that is functioning and respirating could be considered complete, which would include the cells of the various organs, but maybe the cell belongs to a greater system of cells that are not "complete" in function until replication is fully complete, as could be the case of a zygote.
The fact that a zygote continues to replicate until it becomes a more complex organism does not really speak to completeness or incompleteness, but rather its function. I would call a liver cell complete because it is as complex as it needs to be to perform its function.
You're trying to prove that a zygote is somehow special and is more complete than other kinds of cells because of its function, but this is a logical fallacy. Every kind of cell is "complete" within the parameters of its function, and together they all make a complete system: your living body.