Answer:
This question relates to the qualities that help us differentiate between living and non-living things. In this question, some activities have been described. As indicated below, such activities regardless of how it is exhibited must fall under a certain trait for which living organisms are known. Hence the answer to the question is as follows:
A: Dressing heavily can be characterized as ADAPTATION
B: Bursting of the Sporangium in Rhizopus is a process that is critical to its REPRODUCTION
C: Bending of the plant shoot towards light speaks to MOVEMENT. For them, light is critical to growth so they must move towards it and away from the shade.
D: A monkey putting a yellow banana in its mouth is called NUTRITION. Every living organism must absorb nutrients in order to remain alive and grow.
Explanation:
There are other characteristics that help to differentiate living from non-living organisms. They are best memoriZed using the following acronym:
MR. NIGER A.D.
M: Movement
R: Respiration
N: Nutrition
I: Irritability
G: Growth
E: Excretion
R: Reproduction
A: Adaptation
D: Death
There are other qualities such as
- possession of Cells and DNA (a living thing may be unicellular or multicellular)
- ability to Metabolize, that is, ingest and convert and absorb nutrients
- Homeostasis: This is the ability of an organism to regulate its internal environment
- Interaction with living and non-living things
All the above make it easy to distinguish between matter that has life and that which doesn't.
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