Are potato chips alive

Answer 1

Basically potato chips don't satisfy the generally recognised sci definition of being alive i.e. potato chips do not self replicate are not consuming energy or forming waste products.

Answer 2

In the same way a cow is alive but a steak is dead, a potato is a living organism which, given the right conditions, will grow into a plant. A chip is dead, fried.

Answer 3

Living. Unless they are in chip or crisp form. Then they were living things.

Answer 4

No, but they are made from living things.

Answer 5

No