Question

Scientifically, at what point does a cell or cells become a living thing? What structures and functions of a cell make it living?

Answer 1

There are a few basic criteria or characteristics of life such as the ability to sustain metabolism and the ability to reproduce without the necessary metabolic machinery of other organisms.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

it respires