Answer 1:
Yes - because living things can grow from them. I guess there are actually both living and dead seeds and eggs - the eggs we buy at the store are not living, and fertilized eggs are dead if the embryo inside has died. Seeds, too, can sprout or germinate even after thousands of years, but some of the seeds will have died by then.
I do research on the origin of life, and we have problems in making a good definition of 'life'.
I think life is a continuum from living to non-living, and that viruses are alive, near the non-living end of the continuum. Viruses are just parasites that need to live inside a living cell, like other parasites that need to live in or on a living organism. My friend [Prof Kevin Plaxco in the Chemistry Dept] wrote a book called 'Astrobiology." He thinks viruses are alive, but his co-author thinks they're non-living.
My research on the origin of life:
Hhansma-mica.
Oldest living seed:
"A date palm seed some 2000 years old – preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions – has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so. The ancient seed was found along with several others in the 1960s in the Masada fortress on the edge of the Dead Sea in Israel."
Oldest viable seed.
A seed doesn't do anything (seemingly), but a young plant changes and grows. So, a seed must be non-living. A leaf that has fallen off a tree is dead, which also means not alive. This must mean dead leaves are non-living things.
Living and Non-Living Things. › uploads › 2020/07
Living things.
Things are living when they display all seven life processes and they are non-living when they do not (except for seeds, eggs and yeast which can be revived again) What is life? If something cannot carry out all of the seven life processes then it is non-living. Some things were never living before like water and oxygen.
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