EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -An organism refers to a living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis. An organism would, therefore, be any animal, plant, fungus, protist, bacterium, or archaeon on earth. These organisms may be classified in various ways.

Detailed explanation-2: -An organism is an individual living thing. Many living things interact with other organisms in their environment. In fact, they may need other organisms in order to survive.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, a living organism can be defined as anything that has life and consists of cells as its basic unit of organization. Examples of living organisms include humans, fungi, algae, trees, animals, bacteria, protozoa, and insects.

Detailed explanation-4: -Living things may be distinguished from non-living things in their ability to carry on life processes such as movement, respiration, growth, responsiveness to environmental stimuli and reproduction.

Detailed explanation-5: -An individual is one organism and is also one type of organism (e.g., human, cat, moose, palm tree, gray whale, tapeworm, or cow in our example).