GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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Information that supports an idea.
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An adult plant or animal that has offspring.
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Any living thing.
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Something passed on from parent to offspring.
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Detailed explanation-1: -An organism is considered as living when it performs the different life processes in one form of another. The occurrence of life processes can differentiate between living organisms and non-living objects.
Detailed explanation-2: -a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes. a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
Detailed explanation-3: -For this reason, living things are called organisms. The activities of the cells are controlled by the cell’s genetic material-its DNA. In some types of organisms, called eukaryotes, the DNA is contained within a membrane-bound structure called the nucleus.
Detailed explanation-4: -Birds, insects, animals, trees, human beings, are a few examples of living things as they have the same characteristic features, like eating, breathing, reproduction, growth, and development, etc.
Detailed explanation-5: -A living organism is composed of cells. The cells divide and the body of the organisms show growth due to the increase in the number of cells. A tree is a living organism and shows the process of growth. Road, pen, and water are non-living organisms which do not show the process of growth.