P.S. I'm not good at thinking. =P
2006-09-18 15:57:44 · 10 answers · asked by pRO luver 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
obviously you are not good at thinking. if there was a nonliving thing that satisfied ALL the characteristics of living things then it would also be living.
2006-09-18 16:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by s_e_e 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The very definition of nonliving means not living so if it had characteristics of a living thing, it would be called a living thing and not a nonliving thing. Some things have some properties of life like viruses, prions and naked RNA but is a shady area.
2006-09-18 17:00:14 · answer #2 · answered by leikevy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire. It's not living, but it satisfies quite a few of the characteristics of life...but not all...because, as said before, that wouldn't make sense.
2006-09-18 16:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by corridor89 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Viruses, when outside of a living environment, they pretty much act like non living things, no reproduction, no replication, no metabolism of any kind nothing, when inside a living cell they act like living beings, by replication
2006-09-18 17:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by virgodoll 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Viruses.... they skirt the edge between living and non-living.
Without the machinery of other living cells to use, they cannot replicate, one of the requirements of "living".
2006-09-18 16:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by jzc17 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is/was a theory that mad cow disease is caused by a protein. A protien isn't alive but in this guess, it was converting protiens to take it's form.
2006-09-18 16:13:16 · answer #6 · answered by something 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there were, it would be characterized as living.
2006-09-18 16:05:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some like to say that fire does.
* it moves
* it "propagates"
* it "feeds"
etc...
2006-09-18 16:05:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm...no. Those are opposites.
2006-09-18 16:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by Shaun 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No
2006-09-18 16:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋