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Biologists study the diversity of life in its many different forms , from microscopic bacteria to complex animals. But what is life? There is no short answer to that question. The best biologists can do is define life in terms of a list of characteristics possessed by living things. Yet some of these characteristics are also true of nonliving things. For example, movement-water is not living yet water moves: growth – fire is non living but it can grow. One approach to understanding living from nonliving is that living things share five basic properties elaborated on below.  \nCharacteristics of living things  \n1. All living things are composed of either one cell or many cells. Details of the structure and function of cells are covered in Lectures 6 & 7. The study of living organisms has led scientists to formulate a Modern Cell Theory which states that  \nA. Every living organism is made up of one or more cells .  \nB. The smallest living organisms are single cells, and cells are the functional units of multicellular organisms .  \nC. All cells arise from preexisting cells .  \nD. Life evolved once, about 3.5 billion years ago , and all organisms alive today represent a continuous line of descent from those first cells .  \nExamples of Cells  \nPlant Cell  \nParamecium – unicelled organism  \n2. All living things use energy. Energy and metabolic pathways are discussed in more detail in Lecture 9. All organisms need energy to grow, move, and even think. 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