Question

as a research scientist you discover what you believed to be a new organism you find the organism in the event of an underwater volcano what would you need to determine about the organism in order to prove that it alive

Answer 1

What you would need to to determine that is to look at the "organism" to see if it has

order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, homeostasis, energy processing, and evolution. If it does then it is a organism.