WHAT IS A LIFE? # LIFE #
A team of scientists aboard the ISS discover a rapidly evolving Martian predator that needs to be kept away from Earth at all costs LIFE . Life , sometimes referred to as biota , i s a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes , such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis , organisation , metabolism , growth , adaptation , response to stimuli , and reproduction . All life over time eventually reaches a state of death , and none is immortal . Many philosophical definitions of living systems have been proposed, such as self-organizing systems. Viruses in particular ma...