what characteristics distinguish living organisms from nonliving things?
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There are seven characteristics of living things: movement, breathing or respiration, excretion, growth, sensitivity and reproduction. Some non-living things may show one or two of these characteristics but living things show all seven characteristics.
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['Variation. Organisms (within populations) exhibit individual variation in appearance and behavior. ... ', 'Inheritance. Some traits are consistently passed on from parent to offspring. ... ', 'High rate of population growth. ... ', 'Differential survival and reproduction.']
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An organism is an individual living thing. It is easy to recognize a living thing, but not so easy to define it. Animals and plants are organisms, obviously. Organisms are a biotic, or living, part of the environment.
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['A living thing can be composed of either one cell or many cells.', 'There are two broad categories of cells: prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.', 'Cells can be highly specialized with specific functions and characteristics.']
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All living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, homeostasis, energy processing, and evolution. When viewed together, these characteristics serve to define life.
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['They are multicellular organisms which do not possess chlorophyll.', 'They are eukaryotic organisms.', 'Cell wall is absent.', 'Mode of nutrition is heterotrophic i.e. they depend on other organisms for food.', 'They have muscle cells due to which they have the capability to contract and relax the body parts.']
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The abiotic factors will define which organisms are able or not to live in a specified place. The living organisms will constitute the biotic factors, which define if and how can an organism live in a specified environment.
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The living organism is the organism that responds to external stimulus, moves, grows, respire, reproduce, eat and excrete. Movement - An organism moving from place to place.
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Properties of Life. All living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing.
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['They are multicellular organisms which do not possess chlorophyll.', 'They are eukaryotic organisms.', 'Cell wall is absent.', 'Mode of nutrition is heterotrophic i.e. they depend on other organisms for food.']
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['Non living structures.', 'Non-cellular.', 'Contain a protein coat called the capsid.', 'Have a nucleic acid core containing DNA or RNA (one or the other - not both)', 'Capable of reproducing only when inside a HOST cell.']
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Some examples of important nonliving things in an ecosystem are sunlight, temperature, water, air, wind, rocks, and soil. Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die. ... These living things interact with the nonliving things around them such as sunlight, temperature, water, and soil.
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Living things need food to grow, they move, respire, reproduce, excrete wastes from the body, respond to stimuli in the environment and have a definite life span. Water, sun, moon and stars do not show any of the above characteristics of living things. Hence, they are non-living things.
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Only living things have cells. Plant cells can be distinguished from animal cells by three characteristics. First, plant cells are bounded by a cell membrane and a rigid cell wall, whereas animal cells have only a cell membrane to protect their insides from the outside environment.
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Summary. Viruses are infectious agents with both living and nonliving characteristics. Living characteristics of viruses include the ability to reproduce – but only in living host cells – and the ability to mutate.
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List the characteristics that distinguish plants from other organisms in other kingdoms. They are eukaryotic, autotrophic (photosynthetic) organisms with true organs and tissues. Individual cells are surrounded by a cellulosic cell wall. Non-motile, having alternation of generations life cycle.
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['All living things are composed of cells.', 'Cells are the basic units of structure and function for living things.', 'All cells come from pre-existing cells. Also, organisms grow by “adding on more cells” NOT by increasing the size of their cells.']