1. Luftballon
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pokémon, characteristics of life, biology
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actually, that's too high of a chance.
Also, on the subject of pokemon being alive:
Well, pokemon:
Adapt and evolve to their habitats, respond to external and internal stimuli, and can reproduce (to some extent).
So I would say yes.
actually response to environment, use of energy, and evolution and adaption are fairly questionable, too.
so, what does Evolution count as? as in pokemon Evolution? is changing to a new form not considered "adapting to your environment", no matter how rapid it occurs? and pokemon do respond to their environment. If there were a fire in a largefield, wouldn't all the pokemon run away? if there was a new food supply, such as a berry orchard, wouldn't pokemon go over and eat the berries?. As far of use of energy, aside from using attacks, I think you have a point.
when have you seen any pokemon actually run from a fire?
and evolution is just growth, not adaption.
I believe it was in an episode of the anime. Or a movie. But if you want a better example, all of the inhabitants of that one forest in the movie Jirachi: Wishmaker ran from the giant fake groudon thing. I count that as external stimuli.
:| anime has plenty of stuff that makes it an unreliable source for pokebiology.
Well, I would think that a species as advanced as pokemon would run from a fire, especially if they were grass type. I mean, pokemon do not just sit around stationary and wait for someone to catch them.
"Responding to the environment" could also be running from a trainer trying to catch it, or responding to another Pokémon attacking it. A wild Pokémon will fight without orders from a trainer, so it still must be able to respond to the environment on its own.
As far as evolution goes... do Pokémon actually grow? We've always been told that they grow by evolving, but is this actually growing by biology's standards? Do they have cells that function as a living thing's and divide as the Pokémon grows?
And I remembered something - Mewtwo was supposedly created from Mew's DNA. Logical assumption that, then, Pokémon have DNA?
eh, I guess.
vulpix is confirmed to grow, as are a few of the snakes and probably plenty of other stuff.
go ask on of the resident biologist on the first, the second is probable by pokedex.
well, except for the fact that deoxys apparently is living space alien dna and stuff. mew is stated somewhere to have dna for everything, but mewtwo's creation varies between the various canons.
Ditto has cells.
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