You see, I was teaching some kids, and they asked me this question. So is a bean a living thing?
2007-12-15 13:54:58 · 15 answers · asked by oneway1106 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Beans are seeds of plants. The plants are living.
2007-12-15 13:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A bean is the embryo for a new bean plant. If a bean isn't alive then it certainly has the capacity for life. So I guess it depends where you consider life to begin. When the plant creates the seed or when the seed becomes a plant.
2007-12-15 22:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by freesince1776 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's alive!
It's aliiiive!
If it were not alive, then it would not produce a plant by just adding water and nutrients.
To the Mexican jumping bean answer - the beans jump because they have the larva of an insect inside them, so technically, there is life there, the bean would be dead by that stage, having been partially eaten from the inside.
2007-12-15 22:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by Labsci 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The mexican jumping beans have little worms inside, so no the bean itself is not alive. I know that not the questions you asked but thats what someone replied so I thought I'd let you know :)
2007-12-15 22:08:13 · answer #4 · answered by beachbabe140 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes a bean is a living thing. this is because a bean is a sort of plant and a plant is a living thing.
2007-12-15 22:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by thegunneyman 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Beans fulfill the all points to a living thing: They reproduce without help (other than viruses) , inherit their genome and so on - as higher plants they are living things
2007-12-15 22:03:44 · answer #6 · answered by nick_maxell1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's a living thing.
It really does RESPIRATION, even though very slow.
It's been proved by a laboratory practice in the respiration topic.
Since bean is a living thing, so it can grow to be a sprout.
2007-12-15 22:32:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it has not yet go through process that can kill it then yes a bean is alive. Even when it is just sitting there it is respiring. In certain conditions it can go dormant, but it is still alive.
2007-12-15 22:07:15 · answer #8 · answered by naz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, both answers are feasible. I'd say its a living thing because it is made of cells. If it wasn't a living thing, then you'd have something like spontaneous generation when a plant grows out of it.
2007-12-15 22:18:10 · answer #9 · answered by Lbd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if it is a human bean'
2007-12-15 22:53:48 · answer #10 · answered by Kerry H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋