Hi Shekhar, the egg is no dought a living thing! An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work
together to carry on the various processes of life. Chicken egg that has just been laid, will not develop into a chick, and we should probably consider it to be non-living. But it is,
essentially, a cell from a living chicken and it clearly began as aliving cell and it still has all the biochemistry of a living cell. So at what point did it "cross the line" from a living cell to a non-living
one? It's very difficult to come up with a completely satisfactory answer.
Answered by
Meera
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11:26 PM on November 05, 2008