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What Is Living?


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Living:

  1. Living refers to something that can grow, move, reproduce, breathe, and conduct a variety of cellular processes.
  2. To fully comprehend what it means to be alive, we must investigate the features of a living creature.
  3. Everything that has life can feel, move, sense hunger and thirst, breathe, reproduce, develop, and has senses is considered living.
  4. Living beings include plants, humans, animals, birds, insects, and microorganisms.

Criteria that determine what Is Living:

Listed below are the criteria for deciding if a thing is living or non-living:

  1. A living thing is able to maintain the body’s internal environment which is referred to as homeostasis.
  2. Must be capable of disintegrating or building-up nutrients to perform metabolic processes.
  3. Living things possess a highly organized structure.
  4. Must be able to adapt to changes in the environment.
  5. Must be capable of increasing in mass and size.
  6. Must be capable of responding to external stimuli.

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