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Give scientific reasons :
Reproduction cannot be the defining characteristic of living organisms. 

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There are many organisms, which never reproduce in their life, although all other characteristic of living things are present in them eg. sterile worker bees, mules, infertile human couples etc.
Hence reproduction cannot be an all inclusive defining property of living things.
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