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Things Around Us
• Common Features of Living and Non-living Things
• Difference between Living and Non-living Things
• Characteris cs of Living Things
• Are A Lll iving Things Similar?
Everything that surrounds us is either living on the major differences between living and
or non-living and the only characteris c non-living things, have a look.
that bifurcates these two is life. All living
COMMON FEATURES OF LIVING AND NON-
things like plants, animals, insects, birds, LIVING THINGS
micro-organisms, etc. have one feature in
common and that’s life. So, living things Some of the important common features of
implies all those creatures of nature that living and non-living things are:
has life. v All living and non-living things are made
up of ma er.
On the other hand, non-living things such as
bo le, pen, chair, door, computer, mobiles, v As ma er occupies space and mass, all
etc. are the one’s that are not alive. Living the living and non-living things have
things are composed of units called cells, mass and occupy space.
which func ons in something that v All living and non-living things have
possesses life. On the other hand, non- structural units. Molecule is the structural
living things are not made up of cells. In this unit of non-living things while cell is the
chapter excerpt, we are going to shed light unit of living beings.
According to the theory of evolu on the
oldest living things on earth are believed
to be the bacteria. Animal Cell Plant Cell
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