THE LIVING WORLD
- The living world evokes a deep sense of wonder. Life is a unique, complex organisation of molecules that expresses itself through chemical reactions which lead to growth, development, responsiveness, adaptation, reproduction, etc. The objects exhibiting these characteristics of life are designated as living beings.
- Maintenance of life or living condition by protoplasm requires continuous energy conversions and using it for performing certain vital activities by which we can easily distinguish living from non-living. Huxley called protoplasm "physical basis of life".
- The overall organisational distinction of living objects from non-living objects is manifested in following structural and functional characteristics of living organisms :
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