Consider the following characteristics:
i) Highly organized
ii) Display homeostasis
iii) Reproduce
iv) Take energy from the environment and transform it
Which of the character(s) is/are common to a cell and a vacuum cleaner?
i and iv only
Both cell and a vacuum cleaner have organized machinery and both of them take energy from the environment to transform it. A vacuum cleaner takes in electrical energy and transforms it into mechanical energy, whereas, a cell takes in light energy from sunlight or chemical energy from complex food and transforms it into various forms.
However, a vacuum cleaner does not display homeostasis and cannot reproduce on their own.