(Biology question) what does it mean to be living?

Question

so yea i need like three sentences

Answer 1

Living organisms have active metabolic pathways.

Living organisms are capable of transcribing DNA.

Living organisms can synthesize new cells.

Answer 2

okay i'll give you the guidelines you have to have to be living and you can make the sentences.

Homoeostasis (insides say the same {temp. blood pressure etc)

Organization (atoms-molecules-cells-tissue-organs-sys...

Growth

Reproduce (either sexually or asexually)

Adapt

Cells

Energy (can make it like plants or eat it like humans)

Responds to stimuli (like plants moving towards the sun)

if you look it spells out hogracer.

that is what every living thing has to have.