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What thing lives the longest? Such as Trees,Plants,Animals,Humans, and Fish. Thanks!

2006-12-22 03:42:25 · 16 answers · asked by confusion sucks 1 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Bacteria
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2006-12-22 03:46:42 · answer #1 · answered by tora911 4 · 0 0

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2016-12-01 02:13:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

It is said that prokaryotes are the first living things in Earth and they are bacteria or Archaea
Prokaryotes are the original inhabitants of this planet, the first successful living organisms may have looked very like some of today's Archaea. Both Archaea and Bacteria evolved somewhere between 3 or 4 billion years ago, as far as we are able to tell from the fossil record. This means they have been around twice as long as the Protozoans and more than 3 times as long as animals.

2006-12-22 03:58:34 · answer #3 · answered by Leandro 2 · 0 0

In general, plants have the ability to live longer than other organisms. Plants are the most adaptable, plastic organisms, and that's why you have trees that can live over thousands of years. As my fellow plant scientists say "It's not like they can get up and run away from trouble, so they have to be able to adapt".

2006-12-22 04:11:37 · answer #4 · answered by btpage0630 5 · 1 0

I didn't do any exhaustive searching but I know there are bristlecone pines in the south west US that have been aged at 8500 years old and some kind of oak tree in Germany aged at 10000 years old. Both ages were found using dendrochronology, not a radiometric dating method.

2006-12-22 04:00:55 · answer #5 · answered by Mark G 1 · 1 0

According to the Bible, plant life is one day older than animal life, including bacteria.

According to evolution, bacteria is the oldest, but bacteria feeds off of living things, causing decay, so what did the first bacteria eat for breakfast? A rock? And how did it go from being a non-living organism to living overnight?

Now hold on.... some will argue it was not overnight.... rather over millions of years.... however, there has to be that one second in time the final transformation from non-living to living came to be.... explain that one.

Probably not a direct answer to this question, but whatever....

2006-12-22 03:56:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

One of the most important notions in biology is that life and natural death do not have to go togther. Before eukarotic (non-bacterial) cells arrived, natural programmed death did'nt exist. Excluding accidental death --through high temperature, viral damage and toxins-- single bacterial cells have the potential for immortality. They replicate, dividing in two, only when their food and nutrients are in abundance. But, if their food is mainatined at a level that is only enough to sustain their single life, the bacterial cell will not divide, and will not die.

2006-12-22 05:06:46 · answer #7 · answered by theBoyLakin 3 · 0 0

The oldest living being is a bristlecone pine tree in California, it is over 4600 years old.

2006-12-22 04:00:02 · answer #8 · answered by sudonym x 6 · 3 0

Tortoises are well-known for living very long but i think there are trees also which may live for several decades, or even, centuries!!

2006-12-22 03:54:27 · answer #9 · answered by Crazygirl 3 · 1 0

Tortoise. In Average, it lives for 200 years.

2006-12-22 04:07:34 · answer #10 · answered by dimple s 1 · 0 1

There is a tree in India that is over 1,000 feet long.

2006-12-22 03:50:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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