When a single-celled organism divides, do you have two new organisms, one new organism and one old organism, or the same organism twice?
It’s certainly possible to kill an amoeba (so they aren’t “immortal” in that sense), but it could be argued that every living amoeba is incalculable old.
When a single-celled organism divides, do you have two new organisms, one new organism and one old organism, or the same organism twice?
It’s certainly possible to kill an amoeba (so they aren’t “immortal” in that sense), but it could be argued that every living amoeba is incalculable old.