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What characteristic of living things distinguishes them from non-living things?

The characteristic that distinguishes living things from non-living things is the ability to grow, reproduce, and respond to stimuli.


How do living thing and non-living things interact with each other?

Living things and non-living things interact in various ways. For example, living things rely on non-living things like water, air, and sunlight for survival. Non-living things can also impact living organisms through pollution or habitat destruction. Overall, there is a complex relationship between living and non-living components in an ecosystem.


How do we classify living and non-living things?

Living things have the capacity to reproduce, non-living things do not reproduce. The living things use biological energy for their growth and development, non-living things do not require such energy.


What makes a living organism different a non living thing?

Living organisms have the ability to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, and maintain homeostasis, which refers to the ability to regulate internal conditions to ensure survival. Non-living things do not possess these characteristics and do not exhibit the same level of organization or complexity as living organisms.


Difference between living and non living things?

Living things have the ability to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, and maintain homeostasis, while non-living things lack these characteristics. Living things also require energy in the form of food or sunlight to sustain life, whereas non-living things do not possess the ability to carry out metabolic processes.

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What is the smallest unit of a living organism or nonliving thing?

The cell is the smallest living thing and an atom is the smallest non-living thing.


What is the basic unit of non living things?

The basic unit of non-living things is the atom. Atoms are the smallest building blocks of matter and make up all non-living things in the universe.


What do non-living things lack that is referd to the smallest unit in life?

cells


What is the smallest non living particle in the human body?

The smallest non-living particle in the human body is an atom. Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter and combine to form molecules that make up all living and non-living things.


How does growth of living things differ from growth of non living things?

living things move while non living things not


What is the smallest non primate?

Bacteria are the smallest living creatures. Viruses are smaller but generally not considered living creatures.


How do living things and non living things differ in their movement?

non-living things move by magic


What living or non-living things form part of the physical environment?

Living things such as plants, animals, and microorganisms form part of the physical environment. Non-living elements, like air, water, soil, sunlight, and rocks, also contribute to the physical environment.


What is the importance of non living things to living things?

For me the ecosystem is the place were living the living things and non living things and the importance of it to as is that they are produce the oxygen that we are in healing


How many non-living things are there in the world?

There is an endless number of non-living things in the world. any object is a non-living thing. The number or non-living things is infinite.


What is the smallest unit of matter?

PPLO i.e. pleuro-pneumonia-like organisms. Viruses could be the smallest living things, but they cannot be classified definitively as "living" since they do not carry out the processes associated with life. They only reproduce, and then only by altering the reproductive mechanisms of other organisms.


What do non living things have but living things do not?

Scientists/experts that classified them as non living things.