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Life - Wikipedia Life exists all over the Earth in air, water, and soil, with many ecosystems forming the biosphere Some of these are harsh environments occupied only by extremophiles The life in a particular ecosystem is called its biota
Life | Definition, Origin, Evolution, Diversity, Facts | Britannica Life comprises individuals, living beings, assignable to groups (taxa) Each individual is composed of one or more minimal living units, called cells, and is capable of transformation of carbon -based and other compounds (metabolism), growth, and participation in reproductive acts
Life (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) A wide range of practices rely on competing conceptions of life: including artificial life, origins-of-life research, the search for life, and other projects described above
Where did life originate? - Understanding Evolution A hydrothermal vent at the bottom of the ocean Photo courtesy of Verena Tunnicliffe, University of Victoria Scientists are exploring several possible locations for the origin of life, including tide pools and hot springs However, recently some scientists have narrowed in on the hypothesis that life originated near a deep sea hydrothermal vent The chemicals found in these vents and the
Life - Wikiversity A physical characteristic of life is that it feeds on negative entropy In more detail, according to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena which are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently
Life - New World Encyclopedia A difficult term to define, life can be considered the characteristic state of living organisms and individual cells, or that quality or property that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate objects
Meaning of life - Wikipedia Meaning of life The meaning of life is the concept of an individual's life, human life, or existence in general having an inherent significance or a philosophical point There is no consensus on the specifics of such a concept, or whether the concept itself even exists in any objective sense