Living systems are incredibly diverse in size, shape, environment, and behavior. It is estimated that there are between 10 milli
on and 100 million different species. Despite this wide variety of organisms, it remains difficult to define what it means to say something is alive. Which of the following can be described as the smallest living unit?
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the smallest living unit known to man is called a cell. In the context of Biology, this is considered the basic building block of all living things, from microscopic single-celled organisms to the human body which contains trillions of cells which make up our whole body.
<h2>The Confucion ideas were merged into Shinto in the following manner:</h2>
Many rituals practised in Confucianism resembled with that of Shintoism.
The idea of honoring the life over everything else preached in Confucianism was conventionally incorporated in Shintoism through believing the deities to be alive and worshipping them as the supreme most.
The idea of respecting the elements of nature in Confucianism and the idea of respecting multiple gods in Shintoism was deemed to be one and the same.