What characteristics determine whether or not something is living?
2006-09-07 10:52:04 · 0 answers · asked by --»~Ñü†~«-- (LâW¥€®) 1 in Environment
No. Hair, as well as your outer skin and nails is dead. The roots are living, but the stuff you see is dead.
2006-09-07 10:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by SinginChic 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer the rest of your question, for a part of your body to be living, it would need a blood supply at the very least to take oxygen and nutrients in, and wast products (like carbon dioxide) out.
For a whole organism to be living it has to do several things:
Move (even plants move)
Feed
Respire
Excrete
Show sensitivity to stimulus
Grow
Reproduce (not essential for living, but most things do it)
I've got a feeling there is one more as well, but I can't remember it.
2006-09-07 11:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hair is not a living thing. All living things grow, reproduce (whether sexually or asexually), need oxygen.
Hair does not breathe or have blood suppy and it does not reproduce. It grows but that is all that it does because of the cell growth. =)
2006-09-07 21:17:22 · answer #3 · answered by Hardrock 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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It's lice. The lice have several life cycle stages and change appearance and size as they age. The white things are egg capsules. It'll be easier to comb them out if she puts a lot of conditioner on her hair. It takes A LOT of combing to get them out and you have to repeat for several days in order to get the newly hatched nits out.
2016-04-01 05:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, here is not a living thing.
2013-12-06 23:49:19 · answer #5 · answered by Shameel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hair is dead. That is why when it is cut it does not hurt or bleed.
2006-09-07 11:57:01 · answer #6 · answered by Scott S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. something is living if the cells still go with their processes like cellular respiration.
2006-09-10 23:38:38 · answer #7 · answered by Freak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no its waste
2006-09-07 10:57:58 · answer #8 · answered by angeleloves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋