what is the meaning of living?

Question

meaning, how would you scientifically determine something living compared to something dead.
even a definition of living would be helpful.

Answer 1

It's usually not any one thing, but a combination of characteristics that's used to determine what is or isn't life. For instance, you could say a living organisms grows, but a crystal can also show "growth" - have you ever made rock candy?

And living things have a metabolism (they take in matter, convert it to energy, and expel a waste product). But the same thing happens when we put gas into an car and drive around.

Besides growth and metabolism, other characteristics used are reproduction (able to duplicate itself), heredity (able to pass on characteristics from one generation to another), movement (of all or part of itself - even plants can turn their parts toward or away from sunlight), response to a stimulus, their form shows some sort of order (groupings or related structures and functions), they're capable of development (from less to more complexity), they can adapt to different changes around them, and through adaptation, reproduction, and heredity, they are able to evolve.

Answer 2

In the animal kingdom, living means to be breathing, to be taking nourishment, to have brain activity. When a human is seriously ill, death seems to be the point at which the heart stops beating and brain activity ceases.
Don't know about the plant kingdom, but a living plant will have sap in its stem any leaves will be green and flowers will be colour full. Dead plants are brown and dry. Hope this helps

Answer 3

A dead soul can still live in a body.

Answer 4

Its living to see the next day and hoping for something new.