The answer is <span>A) describe the characteristics of life.
It is hard to define life. But, much easier task is description of the characteristics of life. Some of those characteristics are:
- Living things are composed of cells and have different levels of organization.
- Living things grow.
- Living things reproduce.
- Living things respond and adapt to their environment.
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Dehydration, amino acids, covalent, peptide
The variety of species of mice around the world demonstrates the creatures' remarkable ability to adapt to different climates, altitudes and food sources.
It may be determination (not sure though)