What properties distinguish living things from nonliving things?

Question

What properties distinguish living things from nonliving things?

Answer 1

Blood for sure. Even bugs have blood.

Answer 2

Living things aren't dead and non-living things aren't living.

Answer 3

MRS GREN is what all living things must have to be classified as living. Non living things dont fit all of these:

Movement

Respiration

Sensitivity

Growth

Reproduction

Excretion

Nutrition

Answer 4

Respiration, reproduction.

In other words. Breathing and Growing as well as energy transformation.

Answer 5

Dead things don't move.

Unless something moves them.

Answer 6

breathing

movement

nerve system (this is actually the most important)

Answer 7

Dude,

Living things move.

Other stuff just kind of sits there.

Answer 8

living things are/have:

energy and material exchange with environment

react to the surroundings

are composed of cells

are able to reproduce

etc

Answer 9

breathing

Answer 10

Cells that can replicate.

Answer 11

They are all wrong.......living things will be composed of cells. non-living things will not be. With the exception that some living things are composed mostly of extracellular material or in fungi, hyphae have no discrete separations so one cannot define that as being composed of cells. But generally speaking, if it doesn't have a metabolism ( for instance a virus) then it is not alive because it needs a 'host' .

Answer 12

living things can die. if you wanna find out if something is living, try killing it, if you can kill it, you know its alive