Question

What are the 3 things that all organisms are capable of doing? These are also known as the challenges of life.

Answer 1

C) growing, processing nutrients, reproducing Let's look at the 4 options and see which makes sense. A) working, growing, eating food * Not so sure about all organisms being able to work. Also the eating food part seems questionable to be, depending upon how you define eating. After all, plants don't eat like you may consider eating. There's likely to be a better choice later. So consider this wrong for now. B) photosynthesis, reproducing, growing * There's an immediate problem with this choice. Plants do perform photosynthesis and are considered alive. But animals don't. So photosynthesis isn't something all organisms can do. So this is a wrong choice. C) growing, processing nutrients, reproducing * Can't see anything wrong here. An organism needs to grow. It has to process nutrients in order to grow. And if it doesn't reproduce, it will eventually die and leave nothing behind. So this is the correct choice. D) running, breathing, watching TV * This choice is wrong on so many levels. Trees which are an organism can't run, nor watch TV. So this is also wrong.