It comes down to genes it can be passed down from family
The following that is a characteristic that could be applied to both living and nonliving things can contain mostly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
The organelles and substances inside the organelles are smaller. On a molecular level a group that are smaller are hadrons, which are the group of particles that consist of protons and neutrons. Even smaller than hadrons are leptons, which consist of neutrinos, electons, and MANY others.
I think it’s E (microtubules) i can be wrong but hopefully this helped
