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Gnoma [55]
3 years ago
6

It is difficult to determine a definition for life that is suitable for all situations. Instead of defining life, biologists hav

e decided to _____.
describe the characteristics of life
determine if something is living or non-living based on its complexity
qualify life based on whether something can move or not
determine something is living if it responds to outside stimuli
Biology
2 answers:
Evgesh-ka [11]3 years ago
5 0

It is difficult to determine a definition for life that is suitable for all situations. Instead of defining life, biologists have decided to describes the characteristics of life.

Answer: Option A

<u>Explanation:</u>

How might we tell that one thing is alive and another isn't? The vast majority have a natural comprehension of what it implies for something to be alive. Nonetheless, it's shockingly difficult to concoct an exact meaning of life.

Along these lines, numerous meanings of life are operational definitions they enable us to separate living things from nonliving ones, yet they don't really bind what life is. To make this partition, we should concoct a rundown of properties that are, as a gathering, exceptionally normal for living creatures.

Thus attempting to define what life is, biologist have distinguished different attributes normal to all the living creatures we are aware of.

agasfer [191]3 years ago
4 0
The correct answer is the first one: biologists describe the characteristics of life rather than providing a definition. Some of the characteristics include:
growth
reproduction
metabolism (using and transforming energy)
organisation (into multiple cells or within the cell)
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