Question

What is the difference between living cell organelles and nonliving cell organelles?

Answer 1

All cell organelles are non-living & only the entire cell is considered to be living.

The key principle is that the smallest unit of life is the cell. Therefore, tissues are living because they are made of cells and organs are living because they are made of tissues.

But anything that makes up a cell necessarily has to not be alive. So all of the organelles in a cell-like the nucleus, mitochondria, and endoplasmic reticulum are all non-living. It’s only when all of the parts of a cell come together to make a cell that you have a functional living entity.