what are the non living when they outside of the body host
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What does it mean to be ‘alive’? At a basic level, viruses are proteins and genetic material that survive and replicate within their environment, inside another life form. In the absence of their host, viruses are unable to replicate and many are unable to survive for long in the extracellular environment. Therefore, if they cannot survive independently, can they be defined as being ‘alive’?
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In this activity, students sort samples into living or non-living things.
What makes something a living thing? To be called a living thing, an item must have once eaten, breathed and reproduced. A dead animal or plant is considered a living thing even though it is not alive.
Our coastal temperate rainforest is full of living and non-living things which interact to create a complete and stable ecosystem. When one tree dies and falls over, it becomes a home and provides nutrients for other living things. We call a fallen log with new plants growing on it a nurse log.
Living components of a forest include:
plants (e.g. trees, ferns, mosses)
animals (e.g. mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians)
fungi
bacteria
Nonliving things in a forest include:
rocks
water and rain
sunlight
air