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The criteria for living things is actually a quite extensive list. Living things must exchange gas, drink, eat, grow, and excrete waste.
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What is criteria of organic matter in soil?
Living things that have been decayed
Is a viris living?
No. Virologists, the scientists who study viruses, don't consider them living things because they do not meet all the criteria of the definition of life.
What is the meaning of this ten characteristic of living things?
The basic idea is to have a set of criteria that let you distinguish "life" from "non-life".
What other criteria can salt crystals be distinguished from living things?
They Can't Reproduce, They can't evolve over time, and they do not have metabolisms.
What things that are similar to living things but do not fit at all of the seven criteria?
on u u u u u u u u u lol
Is a chromosome a living thing?
What a thought-provoking question! Scientists have established criteria about whether a "thing" is living or non-living. For example, two common criteria are respiration and reproduction. However, DNA is actually a chemical compound, and chromosomes are nucleic acids and protein. So, neither one is considered living; both are non-living.
What charateristics do all living things have in common?
There are three criteria for something to be described as living/an organism: It must eat It must move of it's own accord It must be able to reproduce
What characteristics of living things does a river have and is a river alive?
They use energy and they grow and develop.
The organization of a rock is much simpler than that of living things By what other criteria can a rock be distinguished from living things?
Rock does not move(on its own) Rock doesn't reproduce. Rock doesn't have Universal genetic code. Rock doesn't take up materials to get energy to preform life processes. That's all the characteristics of all living things i could remember.
Why are vampires immortal?
A true vampire is somebody who is already dead and is animated by the ability to steal life-force from living things. Living creatures have a criteria that determines how long they can live. This is done by a replication limit on chromosomes. A vampire does not have this limiting criteria any more and there is no additional one to restrict their age. Therefore their potential age is undetermined.
Which is smallest unit of life that can exist as separate entity?
According to a student taking the AP biology exam, he/she lost 10 points by choosing an answer that said viruses are living things and as a result, states that viruses are not living things :http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080926021144AAwdJ2h According to MCAT training materials (MCAT is the test taken to get into med school) Viruses are no considered cells because, among other reasons, they cannot live independently. The MCAT materials say that there is a debate as to whether viruses are living things because of the nature of their life cycle (again - they cannot live independently). Other posts that I found on this topic by searching ask.com say that viruses are not living things because they fail to meet the 7 criteria of living things. Viruses are 20 - 300nm in size and prokaryotes are 1 - 10um. While viruses are smaller, many feel they manufacture rather than reproduce and therefore are not living things. MCAT training materials do not come out and say whether they are living or non-living but refer to them as parasitic, acellular, and incapable of living independently and note that there is debate as to whether they are living things. Once can say truthfully, as another poster noted, viruses fail traditional, established criteria for 'life'. In this instance, I would say the smallest thing that meets the criteria for life is prokaryotes (bacteria). Debatable is whether or not established criteria for life need to be modified in order to accommodate the unique nature of viruses.
Different shape living things and non-living things?
The living things have life while the non-living things do not have life. The living things locomote and respond to stimuli while the non-living things do not.
