What is the largest living thing on the face of the Earth?
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Well, for a mammal, the blue whale. They can be up to 30+ metres long. Or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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The Great Barrier Reef, I believe.
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I think that there's a giant mushroom or fungus somewhere that was several square miles. Here, check this out: http://www.extremescience.com/biggestlivingthing.htm
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I put my money on the fungus answer. In the movie "Phenomenom" the main character pointed out trees that seemed independent of each other but unnoticeably were connected by an underground root network. In actualality it was one tree, but huge!
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I seem to remember the Great Barrier reef being called the largest living thing, since it is a colony of symbiotic coral, and technically it is almost impossible to separate coral, so it is classified as one organism.
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The largest living organism is the "Honey Mushroom" found in eastern Oregon.It cover 2200 acres of land and is one mushroom.
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Rosie O'Donnell? (sorry that was mean, but so is she). I think there is a group of trees in the Pacific NW of the US that is actually one combined mass.
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I thought it was a vast expanse of Aspen trees with the exact same root system ... somewhere in Colorado ...
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yeah I have to agree with 'evil' on this one :)
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How about the Redwoods?
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The Blue Whale.
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All of existence, secular and astral...one big energy blob and very much alive.
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The earth!
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Sequoia Tree.
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Its the breat barrier reff in austrailia, the mushroom is only the largest living thing on land
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But what about it's DNA? Does the Aspen grove, Honey Mushroom, or Great Barrier Reef use the same DNA throughout the whole thing? And if you cut it in two, would it still be one living thing, or just two smaller things? How can you tell if it's already been cut in half (or into a hundred pieces), unless one end of it communicates with the other end somehow? How can you tell it's really one big thing?
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