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serg [7]
3 years ago
12

The criteria used to determine whether something is alive includes movement, growth and

Biology
2 answers:
soldi70 [24.7K]3 years ago
7 0
One good way to remember this is with the acronym MRS GREN;

Movement - The organism can move in some way (plants move as they grow)
Reproduction - Creating new copies of this organism
Sensitivity - A response to a change in the environment around the organism

Growth - The ability to create new structures / cells
Respiration - The ability to break down food to get energy
Excretion - The organism creates waste which is disposed of
Nutrition - The organism has the ability to eat food
quester [9]3 years ago
5 0
<span>presence of protoplasm, self built organisms, self repair, reproduction and various life process like metabolism, nutrition, respiration, exchange of material, transportation, excretion and irritability.</span>
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