How does the living and non living resemble up to the level of organization?
Answers
It is a claim of molecular biologists a claim with which we can in general agree that they have made very large steps towards reducing the problem of the organisation of the living being (including even the problem of its hereditary processes) to physical laws. Some indeed would claim to have accomplished the whole task already. We shall come back to the question of the hereditary organisation later. Here we can say that what has been done by the molecular biologists is to develop a model of the cell which behaves very much like a classical man-made machine or an automaton but one in which the “secret of heredity” is found in the normal chemistry of nucleic acids and enzymes. The implication of this is that parts functioning like a machine can be described as a machine even though these parts may be single molecules; and machines are understood in terms of elementary physical laws. This is an attractive analogy and is indeed one which we have all been using for a long time. As has been explained above we repeatedly and successfully ask the question “What is this for?” when considering the different structures in living organisms—quite as successfully and legitimately as we can ask this of a piston a lever or an electric circuit in any machine designed by man.
Answer:
There is no resemblance in the living and non-living things up to the level of organization.
Explanation:
The basic unit of any living thing is cell which combine to form the next level that is called as tissues. Different tissues work together to form organs. These organs combine with certain other organs to form ‘organ system’.
A living organism has different organ systems which work together and allows all the activities of a living system. Such level of organization is absent in non-living things.