I'm trying to find nonliving things that reproduce and a potato dosn't seem living?
2006-09-12 15:18:07 · 11 answers · asked by Music 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Just because something grows it doesn't mean it is living. Water and soil reproduce and they are both nonliving.
2006-09-12 15:33:24 · update #1
Wonderful thing about plants, they are so darned quick. Yep, potatoes are roots and roots are living. If your potatoe hasn't been frozen or had the eyes (little buds) popped off, then leave one alone and it will sprout (if it isn't too dry).
Try the area of crystals, they are nonliving but replicating.
2006-09-12 15:27:13 · answer #1 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If it could be planted in the ground and would grow into a tree/plant/bush whatever, it is still living. If the potato is so old that it could no longer do that, then it is not living. But a dead one wouldn't help you either, cause it won't reproduce. Can't think of anything not living that reproduces.
2006-09-12 15:28:08 · answer #2 · answered by rainbow_melody_99 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Potatoes are definitely alive, except if you're thinking of a cooked one ;-)
Not many non-living things actually reproduce. Computer viruses, maybe. And viruses, if you consider them in the border between living and non-living.
Mineral crystals grow, but don't reproduce. And of course they're not living.
PS. Potatoes are tubers, i.e. modified stems, not roots. Compare them to a carrot, which is a root.
2006-09-12 15:25:27 · answer #3 · answered by Calimecita 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A potato would be alive as it is the root of a plant. I don't think anything can reproduce if it is non living.
2006-09-12 15:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by obenypopstar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? Who said non-living???
A potato is a plant... IT GROWS. How could you not realize this, things that grow are alive. Potatoes grow.
OK, so who here thinks rocks are alive? Show of hands? Oh, really? That many of you? IDIOTS!
Yes, a plant is alive. It is a plant. It is in the "fauna" kingdom of living things. You put it in the ground, and it grows into more potatoes. If you take a potato, a potato right from the supermarket and you place it so that it is half submerged in a glass of water, it will sprout. Yes, it will grow. Try it. Do you know why it sprouts in water?
BECAUSE ITS FRICKIN' ALIVE!!!!
2006-09-12 15:27:00 · answer #5 · answered by Soda Popinski 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is living. Any part of a plant is living, because the plant is alive...it breathes, feeds, moves towords the sun..it's as living as you are! Actually, I'm pretty sure anything that can reproduce is living.
2006-09-12 15:27:11 · answer #6 · answered by hermanita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please do not post wrong information if you don't know the answer. Potato is not a root, it is an underground modified stem.
2014-09-11 00:43:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
living
2006-09-12 15:19:47 · answer #8 · answered by sheepherder 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is like a seed. The new potatoes grow from eyes. It is alive.
2006-09-12 15:25:31 · answer #9 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i was tring to cook my potato yesterday and it attacked me,,,so its living yes
2006-09-12 15:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋