In trying to imagine ways to unify knowledge of the worlds phenotypes (not DNA/RNA) we ran various exercises to think of just one "standard" measurement that co

In trying to imagine ways to unify knowledge of the worlds phenotypes (not DNA/RNA) we ran various exercises to think of just one "standard" measurement that could be measured across all life. All failed at one scale or another. An individual clonal tree (poplar), good luck measuring its mass. A blob like radially symetrical single celled organism, "length" is meaningless. You get the idea ...