Question

1. What does it mean to be living?

2. Based on what you have learned about the characteristics that are required for life,
categorize A, B, C and D in the image below as living or non-living. Explain, for each, why you
have placed it in the living or non-living category
A
Puppy

B
Latta 100
USSIAN
ORGANIC
LIVE
PROBIOTIC
YOGURT

C
athletes foot

D
Flu virus

Answer 1

1. It means to have the charatersitcs of life which is the ability to reporoduce as a species, ability to adapty, use energy, homeostasis, have the ability to grow and develope, and use or give off some sort of energy.

2.

A. Living

B. Non-living

C. The fungi on athletes foot is living.

D. Non-living considered a virus (needs a host to be living)