Answer: gas in the air, pollution
Explanation:
Photosynthesis and chemosynthesis
It gets polluted from fertilizers or any spilled chemicals. And those chemicals get obsorbed into the ground. And the gravity pushes them deeper in the soil, till it reaches the underground water (or aquifer)
Metabolism involves the over-all chemical reactions of the body. It is divided into two kinds. The first one is catabolism which is the breaking down of molecules to acquire energy. Anabolism, the other type, is the synthesis of all the molecules that are needed by the cells.
Genetics is not generally considered a characteristic of life.