Life is the characteristic state of organisms. Properties common to terrestrial organisms (plants, animals, fungi, protists and bacteria) are that they are cellular, carbon-and-water-based with complex organization, having a metabolism, a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and—through natural selection—adapt.
An entity with the above properties is considered to be organic life. However, not every definition of life considers all of these properties to be essential. For example, the capacity for descent with modification is often taken as the only essential property of life. This definition notably includes viruses, which do not qualify under narrower definitions as they are acellular and do not metabolise. Broader definitions of life may also include theoretical non-carbon-based life and other alternative biology.
The entire Earth contains about 75 billion tons of biomass (life), which lives within various environments within the biosphere.
2006-09-04 01:12:02
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answered by rohan 2
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Life is your Power To Change The World
2006-09-12 00:04:37
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answered by avinash k 1
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Life Is A Treasure & Reality That Everyone In This World Has! It Is A Gift From Our Holy Lord! It Shows & Teaches Us That Living & Breathing On This Earth & Having Good Will Towards Others Is A Very Precious & Honorable Blessing From God!
Our Holy Saviour Above!!!!!!!
God Bless You!!!!
2006-09-10 08:10:25
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answered by bigred 4
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Life is living.
2006-09-04 01:15:45
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answered by sandra g 3
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Life of human being is the result of union between man and woman. Otherwise, life means, consequence of environment created by the five elements :- Earth, Air, Water, Fire and sky.
2006-09-11 18:02:25
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answered by dipu 4
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Life is what you make of it.
2006-09-10 07:14:28
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answered by randrnorman 3
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Can be relative. Definitions will develop about life as we become more aware.
There is more to life than meets the eye.
2006-09-08 23:48:32
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answered by LeBlanc 6
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it's something great opportunity that u got.It's an up & down of (like hills) happyness & sorrowness.it is like mobile signals u will get signals for a long time but u mayn't got signals sometimes.like this u will be happy for a long time but u can't escape from sorowness r troubles
got a little idea
try 2 b happy all the time it may become secret of ur happy life
2006-09-04 01:22:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Life "is". If it was "was"/"will be", then it wouldn't be "life" but "lifeless"/"unborn". So, the moral of the story is to live life to its fullest, one should be here and now and not worry about the past or the future. What say?
2006-09-08 06:10:20
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answered by uma p 1
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Literally, LIFE is the state which distinguishes living beings or organisms from dead or inert ones and is characterised by metabolic action, growth and reproduction.
For us (humans), it is not a "bed of roses" but a journey through struggles to realise our dreams and achieve our goals in pursuit of progress!
2006-09-08 16:31:57
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answered by believer 3
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