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I'd say it is - if it's fertalised - that is untill you boil it. It's nothing like the earth though. Are you mates with Jissplat?

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That's an interesting question. I guess they are as long as metabolisms and growth are taking place, but otherwise it’s dead, such as when preserved in the refrigerator or even cooked.

 

If it is not doing what a living cell is doing then it is definitely not “alive”.

Posted
That's an interesting question. I guess they are as long as metabolisms and growth are taking place, but otherwise it’s dead, such as when preserved in the refrigerator or even cooked.

 

If it is not doing what a living cell is doing then it is definitely not “alive”.

If something has never been alive, can it really be classified as "dead"?

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Actually why should it not be considered alive? Of course at the current state it cannot replicate. The same goes for caterpillars. Or certain differentiated cells that do not replicate anymore. Well the properties of life are not as dual as one might think (as in life vs dead).

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Well it does not need to be fertilized to be classified as living cell. Ovaries are cells, so they are living.
But ovaries aren't cells, they're ogans. They produce oocytes and are analogous to testes.

 

Oocytes are alive, in the same way a grain of pollen is alive. It carries potential, but will only achieve it after fertilization. It is 'less' alive than any other cell (except erythrocytes) and the same degree of alive as sperm, which also don't have any other function or metabolism.

 

A better term than 'alive' to describe the state would be 'viable'.

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