What is Life?
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Which of the following is a characteristic that distinguishes matter with biological processes from matter without?

  • Reproduction (correct)
  • Magnetism
  • Radioactivity
  • Conductivity
  • What term describes the capacity for maintaining internal stability in living organisms?

  • Osmoregulation
  • Homeostasis (correct)
  • Isotonicity
  • Kinesthesia
  • Which philosopher proposed that living things have souls and embody both form and matter?

  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle (correct)
  • Empedocles
  • Modern classification of living things began with whose system of binomial nomenclature in the 1740s?

    <p>Carl Linnaeus</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for environments occupied only by extremophiles?

    <p>Extreme environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What makes the definition of life difficult, particularly in the case of viruses?

    <p>Their replication only in host cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Empedocles's materialism, what was life composed of?

    <p>Four eternal elements</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the capacity of living organisms to maintain internal stability?

    <p>Homeostasis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What philosopher proposed that living things have souls and embody both form and matter?

    <p>Aristotle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When did life originate, resulting in a universal common ancestor?

    <p>3.5 billion years ago</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the capacity of living organisms to maintain internal stability?

    <p>Homeostasis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a characteristic that distinguishes matter with biological processes from matter without?

    <p>Response to stimuli</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Empedocles's materialism, what was life composed of?

    <p>Four eternal elements</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who proposed that living things have souls and embody both form and matter?

    <p>Aristotle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When did life originate, resulting in a universal common ancestor?

    <p>At least 3.5 billion years ago</p> Signup and view all the answers

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