Answer
The ten essential qualities that distinguish
living organisms from nonliving things include:
• Cellular composition
• Metabolism
• Excretion
• Responsiveness
• Movement
• The ability to maintain homeostasis
• Development
• Heredity
• Reproductive processes
• Adaptation though evolution
Work Step by Step
This is a key differentiation between abiotic and biotic substances. Biotic organism contain these essential elements as verified by modern practices of science while abiotic do not.
