An example would be us humans we captive breed them then kill them. So they could adapt and avoid the predator but still get hunted down.
If an experiment is not verifiable, the person doing the experiment would never be able to get the answer to their hypothesis. Hypotheses need to be testable.
Hope that clarified things.
It could be considered living only if it has some of the other characteristics of life...
Such as: obtaining energy, metabolism, excretion of wastes, move or respond to environment (stimuli), reproduction or binary fission, evolution