--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ronn!Blankenship
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At 02:49 AM Monday 7/17/2006, Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> >Cancer is undifferentiated balls of cells too. Is a tumour
> > a "human"?
>
>
> The obvious difference is that if left alone a blastocyst has a
> chance (if nothing goes wrong) of becoming a human being, whereas
> a tumor does not.

I don't think that "potential" has anything to do with it.  The
organism you are calling a blastocyst is a human being - it ain't a
cow, after all.

So, I see where you are going with this, but I think that your
answer was a little too simplistic.

JDG




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