Is an apple a living thing?
I wouldn’t consider an apple a living thing. The apple is the ovary of the tree. Its purpose is to spread the seeds either by falling and providing nutrients to the growing seeds or by being ingested by passing animals and allowing the animals to spread the seeds through defecation. The apple itself is not ever really living, it’s just an organ. It will no longer grow once it is off the tree, but the again once it has reached full maturity it stops growing anyway. And the lettuce the above poster refers to is different. Lettuce is the plant itself, not the reproductive section of the plant. Any green vegetation is alive until it is completely wilted and brown (at that point, there is no photosynthesis or respiration taking place so the plant is starved).
