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How does a biologist determine whether a thing is living or nonliving?
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Biologists determine whether a thing is living or nonliving by a list of characteristics. These characteristics include the ability to reproduce, the ability to eat, the ability to grow and the ability to excrete waste.
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How you could use a microscope determine whether the specimen is a living or non-living thing?
You can tell because it will show characteristics of a living or nonliving object.
Is aluminum living or nonliving?
Nonliving
What separates the living from the nonliving things?
What seperates the living from nonliving things?
When do you think a life scientist would study a nonliving thing such as a lake or a rock?
A biologist would likely only study physical things in regards to how they affect living things.
Can a cell be nonliving?
Technically there is not such thing as a non-living cell, because all cells are living, though it might just mean a cell that has died.
How you could use a microscope determine whether the specimen is a living or non-living thing?
You can tell because it will show characteristics of a living or nonliving object.
What kind of living and nonliving things do you think marine biologist studies?
Marine biologist's study everything from algae to the largest whale. Basically anything in the ocean, living or not they will study.
Are there things in between living and nonliving?
There is some debate about the status of a virus, whether it is living, not living, or some intermediary condition.
Is a car living or nonliving?
It can't because it is NOT a living organism.
Is aluminum living or nonliving?
Nonliving
What is a nonliving part and living part in the desert?
Sand, soil, rocks, gravel, water, air and light are abiotic (nonliving) factors of the desert. All living creatures, whether plant or animal, are biotic (living) factors.
Is abiotic living or nonliving?
NOnliving, biotic is living
Is the earth living or nonliving?
the earth is nonliving but has living organisms on it
How can non living cells have cells?
Nonliving THINGS do not contain cells, however ALL THINGS, whether living or non-living, do contain atoms.
Are toenails living or nonliving?
nonliving
Is space living or nonliving?
it is nonliving
Is the periosteum living or nonliving?
nonliving
