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What criteria do we use to decide whether something is alive?

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Any visible movement such as walking breathing or growing is generally used to decide whether something is alive or not. However a living organism can also have movements which are not visible to the naked eye. Therefore the presence of life processes is a fundamental criteria that can be used to decide whether some thing is alive or not.
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