I am both alive and not alive, I can grow but cannot breathe. What am I?
Category: Brain · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about something that forms naturally but isn’t classified as living.
Answer
A crystal
Explanation
Crystals can grow in size but lack biological processes that define life.
This is a expert brain riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A crystal.
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