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Living things will grow, metabolize, reproduce, respond to stimuli and adapt to their environment. Non-living things may do one or more of these things (for example a crystal may grow) but will not do all five.

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How can you say that living things are things?

Living things are considered as "things" because they possess characteristics such as growth, reproduction, response to stimuli, and metabolism. While they differ from non-living things in their ability to carry out these life processes, they are still entities that exist and interact within the natural world.


How do living thing and non living thing differ?

Living things have the ability to grow, reproduce, and respond to stimuli, while non-living things do not possess these characteristics. Living things require energy and nutrients for survival, whereas non-living things do not have these requirements. Living things also have a complex organization of cells, tissues, and organs, while non-living things are typically composed of inanimate matter.


Can a living thing become a nonliving thing?

living things can move from one place to another whereas none living things can move


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 are the differences between a living and a non living thing?

Living things contain information which defines them; all life we presently know about uses Deoxyribonucleic acid to record this information, although other methods may be possible, and living things can reproduce themselves; those are the key features of life.What is said above is correct yet a living thing is defined also by the seven life processes;MovementNutritionReproductionSensitivityExcreteRespirationGrowthIf a 'thing' cannot do any one of these, It is characterized as Not Living.

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How the living and non living thing differ in their movement?

Non-living things tend not to move without outside influence.


How do nucleotides cause living things to differ from on another?

the reason is that each living thing has a different order of nucleotides in its DNA


How can you say that living things are things?

Living things are considered as "things" because they possess characteristics such as growth, reproduction, response to stimuli, and metabolism. While they differ from non-living things in their ability to carry out these life processes, they are still entities that exist and interact within the natural world.


What are the seven life processes which all living thing must do?

The seven life processes which all living things do are: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, and nutrition.


What do living thing do to make more living thing?

Living things reproduce.


Is sock living thing?

No, socks are not a living thing- or they might eat your feet! Neither is fire.


Are tissues living things?

Yes it is al living thing, because cells are living things and when cells form a tissue then it is a living thing


Can living things reproduce non living things?

Some can. You (a living thing) can print off multiple copies of this answer (non-living thing).


What makes living thing different from non living thing?

Living things are alive.


Why living things grow?

I am a living thing!


How do living thing and non living thing differ?

Living things have the ability to grow, reproduce, and respond to stimuli, while non-living things do not possess these characteristics. Living things require energy and nutrients for survival, whereas non-living things do not have these requirements. Living things also have a complex organization of cells, tissues, and organs, while non-living things are typically composed of inanimate matter.


There are more non living thing or more living things?

there are more living things