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Rajshree Chatterjee

No, a car is not living despite its movement. Movement alone does not define life. Cars do not grow, reproduce, or respond to stimuli. They lack metabolic processes and cellular organization, which are essential characteristics of living beings.

Rajshree Chatterjee

Living beings grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, and have metabolic processes, while non-living things do not. Living organisms exhibit cellular organization and adapt to their environment, whereas non-living things lack these characteristics and do not undergo any life processes.

Rajshree Chatterjee

A pencil is non-living because it lacks life processes such as growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli. In contrast, a pigeon is living as it exhibits these characteristics, including movement, metabolism, and the ability to reproduce and respond to its ...

Rajshree Chatterjee

Living beings differ from non-living things through characteristics such as growth, reproduction, metabolism, response to stimuli, and adaptation. They also have cellular organization and the ability to carry out life processes, unlike non-living things, which do not exhibit these traits.

Rajshree Chatterjee

Yes, animals and plants are considered living despite not moving from one place to another. They exhibit other signs of life, such as growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli. Movement is just one of many characteristics defining life.