What is a non-living thing that displays 3 or 4 characteristics of a living thing?

Question

and it cannot be a sponge

Answer 1

no. is a virus. it contains DNA/RNA, replicates, and can respont to stimuli/ to their enviroment. but they lack of metabolism and grow, bcz they ensambly their capside, like a machine.

OMG- is not fire: i'll explain

not all living organism produces CO2, example the plants.
it doesent react to enviroment too, bcz living things need to react to enmivoment in an "intelligent way" nucleic acid (means DNA/RNA), if you touch a bacteria that in its DNA dont have recorded your" touch" it wont react.

it isnt a dead animal too.
not all organisms have "elevated body temp", not all produce CO2, example plants. and altough it has a digestive system, it can't undergo digestion bcz is DEAD!

Answer 2

a million) Neutered canines will stay longer, greater healthy lives than people who're not neutered.- certainty. have confidence it or not. 2) Spayed b*tches will in no way get breast maximum cancers. myth, nonetheless it does help. 3) Neutering canines will help stop any form of aggression. myth, besides the fact that it helps sometimes and particularly till now they hit puberty. (at 6 months) 4) There are 40 two the teeth in a dogs's mouth. certainty 5) canines are actually not colorblind. - I dont understand approximately this one. 6) B*tches do not yearn to reproduce & have a relatives like human beings do. myth- each animal has the urge and instinct to reproduce 7) blended breed canines are greater healthy than Purebreds.- certainty. 8) instruct canines are undesirable, inbred mutants. certainty, in some lines 9) All canines, even with breed, are direct descendants of wolves and technically of a similar species. certainty 10) The Basenji is the international’s purely barkless dogs- Dont understand approximately this one.

Answer 3

Viruses resemble other organisms in that they possess nucleic acid, and can respond - in infected cells - to their environment in a limited fashion. They can also reproduce by creating multiple copies of themselves through simple self-assembly.
Viruses do not have a cell structure, regarded as the basic unit of life. Additionally, although they reproduce, they do not metabolise on their own and therefore require a host cell to replicate and synthesise new products. Bacterial species such as Rickettsia and Chlamydia, while living organisms, are even unable to reproduce outside of a host cell.
An argument can be made that all accepted forms of life use cell division to reproduce, whereas all viruses spontaneously assemble within cells. The comparison is drawn between viral self-assembly and the autonomous growth of non-living crystals. Virus self-assembly within host cells also has implications for the study of the origin of life, as it lends credence to the hypothesis that life could have started as self-assembling organic molecules[citation needed].
If viruses are considered alive, then the criteria specifying life will have been permanently changed, leading scientists to question what the basic prerequisite of life is. The standards required to call something artificially alive would be reduced and the prospect of creating artificial life would be enhanced. If viruses were said to be alive, the question could follow of whether even smaller infectious particles, such as viroids and prions, are alive.

Answer 4

A recently killed live animal.

It can have blood. It can have an elevated body temperature.
It can have lungs filled with oxygen and carbon dioxide. It can have a digestion process that is proceeding.

Those characteristics will disappear after a while but the question was not that specific about continuing.

Answer 5

Fire.
It consumes food (fuel) and leaves waste in the form of CO2 and ash.
It reproduces (by spreading).
It reacts to its environment.
It can be killed (extinguished).
It dies in the absence of suitable resources--food, air.

Answer 6

Virus!