2006-12-06 13:31:45 · 6 answers · asked by Dellajoy 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
No. Pain is transmitted through nerve endings to the hypothalamus. Plants have neither nerve endings, nor a hypothalamus. An organism need a brain in order for the unpleasant sensation to be mentally experienced. Also, it could be argued they have no minds, but that is more philosophical than scientific.
2006-12-06 15:12:13 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Pain is a sofistocated sense that needs a lot of stuff to have. You need sensory organs (like a innervated skin structure), you need nerves to carry the impulses, and finally you need some type of brain/spinal cord or something that can be used as a reflex arch in order to decode the information to feel the pain.
Just because your alive doesn't mean you feel pain. Ask grandma with left sided paralysis after her stroke. She has a pulse there but no sensation at all.
2006-12-06 21:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by n_m_young 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to biologists and most religions (one of the only things they agree on) is that plants are living, breathing, eating, reproductive organisms. Due to the fact that they do meet all the characteristics of "being alive" and living things can feel pain, then we can rightly deduce that plants feel pain.
2006-12-06 21:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by DevilzAdvocate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no of course not. they don't have pain receptors. this is one of those crazy scientific misconceptions that floats around.
2006-12-06 22:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by ♥perishedmemories♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a cactus and sit on it.
2006-12-06 21:43:50 · answer #5 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends who you ask!
2006-12-06 21:39:27 · answer #6 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋