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Properties of Life
Chapter 1 of the text highlights the nine properties of life. Briefly describe each of the nine properties and discuss how things like a virus, prion, and viroid can reproduce, but are not considered to be alive. Address the question: how can things like these that are not considered to be alive “evolve”?
Your assignment should be 250-500 words in length.
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Properties of Life
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PROPERTIES OF LIFE
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For an organism to be considered as living, it ought to fulfill the nine of life’s properties.
Order is the first properties and is defined as an organism’s ability to maintain homeostasis.
Primarily, this relates to the organism having the ability to biologically regulate itself thus not
being subject to physical entro...