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What are the characteristics of living organisms?

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Complexity, with precise spatial organization on several scales
The ability to change in response to environment
Ability to reproduce
Capacity to evolve

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What does the living and nonliving world have in common?

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They both follow the same chemical rules and obey the same physical laws.

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First Law of Thermodynamics

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Energy can neither be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another.

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Second Law of Thermodynamics

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The degree of disorder (or the number of possible positions and motions of molecules) in the universe tend to increase

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Entropy (of a system)

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The amount of disorder (or the number of possible positions and motions of molecules)

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Based on Redi and Pasteur’s experiments, the scientific method shows that….

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LIVING ORGANISMS COME FROM OTHER LIVING ORGANISMS