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Rough draft -- Definition Paper 01.30.11

=What is Life?= Life is obviosuly a very important concept in the world today. Many people believe that life is a given and not a privilege or something that you should be thankful for. The dictionary definition of life is, " The condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction , and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally . This definition of the word life is defining life as something that separates organisms from non living or dead objects. To be able to fully understand this definition of life you would have to know that definition of death, or the definition of a dead ozrganism. The dictionary definition of death is, " The end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. I suppose the question that i am trying to get across is what is the definition of life.

The concept of life can be very hard to grasp, one thing that helps to define what life really is, is what makes the body function and being able to understand how being alive and having a functioning body can be compared and contrasted. There are eight different functioning systems of the human body, they include, respitory, nervous, digestive escretroy, endocrine skeletal, muscular, circulatory and integumentary. All of theese different system have there own functions that are nesecary to keep the human body alive and functioning.

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What is interaction? The definiton of interaction according to, wordnetweb.princton, is, to act toghter , or towards others, or with others. This is an important concept of life because everybody interacts, although it may not be physicaly or out in the open, but emotinaly and hidden. According to the defention of interaction and the realtion of it to the concept of life, you are able to interact as early as four months in your mothers womb by kicking and moving around.

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Scientests state that in order to be classified as a living object, one must fall under the category of these six rules, which are , living things are made of cells, living things obtain and use energy, living things grow and develop, living things are able to reproduce, living things respond to there enviorment, and living things adapt to their enviorment. According to the scientests if an object obtains just one or a couple of those characteristics than that does not nesecarily mean that it is living. To be considered alive one must obtain all six of the characteristics. Another important characteristics of a living object is homeostasis. "All organisms have stable internal conditions which must be maintained in order to remain alive. These include temperature, water content, heartbeat, and other such things. In a way, this has to do with energy use, because a certain level of energy must be kept within the body at all times. For this, obviously, humans must then ingest food on a regular basis. Not all conditions are for the body to maintain itself; though most are."

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=**What is life ?**= When i was younger i used to wonder how the world worked, what would happen when the world ended , what would be left when everybody was gone ,and where would i go, or what would happen to me when the world was to end. These are all concepts of the very confusing word, life.
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Many people believe that life is a given and not a privilege or something that you should be thankful for. Being alive is summed up mainly as the functions of the human body and how they help your body do what it needs to do in order to stay alive. Life is described as something that separates organisms from non living or dead objects. To be able to fully understand this definition of life you would have to know the definition of death, or the definition of a dead ozrganism. Death is the end of life, the point at which all vital functions of an organism is terminated.

The concept of life can be very hard to grasp, one thing that helps to define what life really is, is what makes the body function and being able to understand how being alive and having a functioning body can be compared and contrasted. There are eight different functioning systems of the human body, they include, respitory, nervous, digestive escretroy, endocrine skeletal, muscular, circulatory and integumentary. All of theese different system have there own functions that are nesecary to keep the human body alive and functioning. If one of the systems were to fail then it could mean serious problems for the body. Many people have dificulties with theese systems, such as the respitory system. The dificulty is known as asthma which causes it to be harder to breathe with increased excercise or allergies. If something were to really irratate the respitory system, it would cause your asthma to start to act up, and if not treated by medicine or docter, this could lead to death.

From the kicking inside your mothers stomache to honking at a reckless driver on your way to work, from learning your very first word to giving a well written speech infront of over one thousand people, waving, yelling, highfives, dirty looks, all of these are examples of interaction. The definiton of interaction according to, wordnetweb.princton, is, to act toghter , or towards others, or with others. This is an important concept of life because everybody interacts, although it may not be physicaly or out in the open, but emotinaly and hidden.

Scientests state that in order to be classified as a living object, one must fall under the category of these six rules, which are , living things are made of cells, living things obtain and use energy, living things grow and develop, living things are able to reproduce, living things respond to there enviorment, and living things adapt to their enviorment. According to the scientests if an object obtains just one or a couple of those characteristics than that does not nesecarily mean that it is living. To be considered alive one must obtain all six of the characteristics. Another important characteristics of a living object is homeostasis. "All organisms have stable internal conditions which must be maintained in orderThe denention of to remain alive. These include temperature, water content, heartbeat, and other such things. In a way, this has to do with energy use, because a certain level of energy must be kept within the body at all times. For this, obviously, humans must then ingest food on a regular basis. Not all conditions are for the body to maintain itself; though most are."

The denention of life will always be an opinionated concept, a religious understanding, or just a completley misunderstood topic. Life is defined many different ways in the dictionaries and on the websites. Honestly life is what people make it. Being alive and the overall concept of life are two completly different subjects although the have the same jists. The concept of life is made up by an individual themselvs, based on religious views, or just there own personal opinions. To be alive is based off of more scientific references, and goes deeper into the human body, and the functions of the human body. Will the question " what is life?" ever be able to be answerd honestly ? Or is it indeed just a persons own belief and opinions of the world.