Living Things

living hosts. Bacteria is a Prokaryotic cells that are present in the soil, air, water and in many

Organism: a form of life composed of mutually interactive parts that maintain various vital processes

life Process All living things perform certain life process like growth, excretion, respiration, circulation etc. All the process like respiration, digestion, which together keep the living organism alive & perform the job of body maintenance are called life process. Examples LIFE PROCESS NUTRITION (The whole process by which organism obtain its good)  Autotrophs :- Those living organism which can make their own food are called Autotrphs. Example- Plants  Heterotrphs:-

I think the point Leavitt is making is that it is very hard to come up a specific definition for life. In the passage, Leavitt is challenged to find ways to prove the group’s definition is wrong. At first glance, the definition seems really practical. The group’s definition is that if something can hold energy, then it could be considered a living organism. Leavitt proves them wrong by bringing in common objects that we would consider nonliving. He shows that just because something changes because of the environment, doesn’t mean that it’s living. A nonliving thing can seem like it’s reacting to the environment because of other principles that apply to it. If Leavitt can prove a theory wrong, I think that he should come up with a theory that

The concept of life from the way one can see it is most similar to the way Ferris Jabr thinks about it. In Ferris Jabr’s Why Nothing is Truly Alive (2014) he talks about how nothing is actually alive and all of it is a concept. This is the way one can perceive how life is because perception is relative depending what has been taught. In reality nothing is alive because there is no one concrete definition of what life means. In the article “Why Nothing Is Truly Alive” Jabr is arguing that the creation of the Strandbeest by Dutch artist Theo Jansen is the same, in the sense of being alive, to an animal or plant. Also he is saying that nothing is actually alive too. Now the Standbeest is an animal made up of plastic tubes, wood, and sails. They move from wind hitting the sails and that moves the machine. Life does not actually have to be alive it can be things that one may want life to be.

To consider something as living there are a few requirements it must fulfil such as to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, adapt to their own environment, made from cells and can use and gain energy1. Viruses have only recently been considered as a contender for being classed as a living organism as they have played a major part in the evolution of all cells2 which shows that viruses must have contained some of the early key components that ancient cells possessed. RNA genomes were present before the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) as ancient cells had them as well as viruses, so viruses probably originated before other cells. However, some scientists have said there is an area between living and

Though the robot described fits some of the technical criteria necessary for life, it is not alive. Rather, it is life-like. As discussed in lecture, the six conditions considered in determining whether or not something is alive are order, the ability to reproduce, growth and development overtime, energy utilization, environmental response, and evolutionary development. The robot certainly has an ordered structure, as it contains bits and pieces manufactured to make it work. However, the structure of the robot is produced in a lab, dissimilar to organisms traditionally considered life, such as plants or animals that naturally contain a cellular structure. Additionally, like a plant or animal, this robot has the ability to reproduce, utilize energy, and possibly to respond to the environment. However, again, what disqualifies the robot form being considered alive is the fact that these are not inherent processes of the robot, the robot had to be programmed by a human. Though the robot has the capability to reproduce itself, this fact is contingent a human granting the robot this ability. Plants and animals are born with these abilities and need not artificial intervention to carry out these duties. In these ways, the robot described should not be considered living, but

I believe that viruses are living, just not in the same way as organisms you see on a daily

Viruses are Nonliving Things As scientists argue whether or not viruses are living, there are a few characteristics of life that support that viruses are nonliving things. These characteristics of life are energy, contains one or more cells, homeostasis, growth and development/reproduction and displaying organization. Each characteristic cannot be identified or proven in a virus by most scientists. Energy is one of the five characteristics that prove viruses are nonliving things.

Through the years an issue that requires consistent exploration is the study of biology: the study of life. Biology is a fundamental study which allows those who research it to better understand how life works and what happens inside the body to threaten that life. Such threats come in microscopic forms such as viruses. These viruses are so dangerous that they are designated to their own category of biology.

To think philosophically, the reality of living does not really has a definition. Around the 1840s, specific groups of people known as transcendentalists argued that there’s an intensive connection among God, man, and nature. They emphasizes that the main truth of understanding reality in life should be an individual epiphany. Christopher Johnson McCandless from Into the Wild shared similar philosophical ideas as two notable transcendentalists known as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and lived life like a transcendentalist based on his behaviors and life values.

In this experiment, I have learned that the unknown object is living. During this experiment, we put hydrogen peroxide in the beaker of the unknown object. Then, we checked for the bubbling or foaming chemical reaction from the cells to see if the object is living. If the unknown sample is living, then bubbles will form indicating the presence of cells. The hypothesis (If the unknown sample is living, then bubbles will form indicating the presence of cells) is supported by the data because the living things bubbled and floated like the potato, while the non-living things showed no reaction like the marble. These results can be explained because the text mentions “All living things are ...composed of one or more cells.” (pg 52) When the cell

The movie I selected for this assignment is Forrest Gump, mostly because it is one of the most widely known movies of all time. Instantly quotable and memorizable, and one I have watched a million times over in every way possible. Forrest Gump, of Greenbow, AL, has one of the most historically and culturally significant lives possible, from playing football for the University of Alabama, to serving as an Infantry Sergeant in the Vietnam War. He also played ping-pong, fished for shrimp, and met presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He met other famous people to include a young Elvis, as well as John Lennon while on TV. He ran back and forth across the country for “3 years, 2 months, 14 days, 16 hours” as he put, and became a good father for his son when his lifelong romantic interest died. He does all of this without realizing what he is doing as he is doing it, simply because he is mildly retarded and just goes through life doing simply what he is told or what he feels like doing. This story also contains examples of the concepts of interpersonal communications, which consists of: the transactional nature of communications, self-image, self-esteem, self-concept, online disclosures, and self-fulfilling prophecies, perception, principles of nonverbal communication and personal presentation, and listening.

living matter. The ability of a protein to act as part of a structure, or as an

particular way it is living out its life cycle. One may become fascinated by it