Identify the basic characteristics of life that define a living organism?

Answer 1

There are 6 basic characteristics of a living organism: Movement, reproduction, sensitivity, growth, respiration, excretion, and nutrition. You'll have to find out for yourself whether or not they describe a living organism......

You have to move if you are alive, no matter what speed or quantity

You have to reproduce in order for your species to survive

You have to have certain amounts of sensitivity to different things.

You have to grow because you might not be fully formed when you were born or created

A spontaneous generation is a life form that appeared or created itself out of inanimate matter

(basically an alive thing popping up out of microscopic stuff)

Answer 2

The basic characteristics of a living organism are:

1. The organism maintains homeostasis (a constant/stable internal environment).

2. The organism must be composed of one or more cells.

3. The organism must undergo growth

4. The organism reacts to a stimulus.

5. The organism reproduces

6. The organism undergoes metabolism

7. The organism adapts to its environment (evolves)

Answer 3

cells

reproduce

growth & development

response to the enviorment

evolution

Answer 4

It is to reproduce any kind of genetic material and give it to the next generation.