The Characteristics of life are growth, reproduction, homeostasis, sense and respond to stimuli, obtain and use energy, made of cells, adapt and evolve.
In the matrix of mitochondria the reactions known as the citric acid or Krebs cycle produce a chemical called NADH. NADH is then used by enzymes embedded in the mitochondrial inner membrane to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP). In ATP the energy is stored in the form of chemical bonds.
The reason why the animal that has been struck by the arrow
goes limp and quickly suffocates because the acetylcholine receptor sites are
blocked and this was made possible because of the drug curare they use in
poisoning the top of the arrows.
A mystery organism is non living