WHAT IS LIFE?

What is life? Does this sound like a strange question to you? Of course we all know what is meant by the word "life", but how would you define it? Do all living things move? Do they all eat and breathe? Even though we all seem to know what is meant by saying something is "alive", it's not very easy to describe what "life" is. It's almost as hard as descriebing where life came from. Even the biologists have a tough time describing what life is! But after many years of studying living things, from the mold on your old tuna sandwich to monkeys in the rainforest, biologists have determined that all living things do share some things in common: 1 is Living things need to take in energy 2 is Living things get rid of waste3 is Living things grow and develop4 is Living things respond to their environment5 is Living things reproduce and pass their traits onto their offspring6 is Over time, living things evolve in response to their environment.