Question

What do you mean by metabolism and consciousness ?Do metabolism and consciousness are defining feature of living organism?Explain

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Answer 1

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Metabolism :

• The sum total of all the chemical reactions carrying in our body is termed as metabolism.

• No non living organism exhibit metabolism.

• Yes, it is the defining feature of living organisms.

Conciousness :

• Every organism [ prokaryotic to eukaryotic, even the complex one ] can respond and sense to environment surroundings. Every organism handle chemicals in their body. So we can say that all of them are aware of their surroundings, that property is known as consciousness.

• Yes, consciousness is also the defining feature of living organisms.

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Answer 2

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Metabolism refers to the all the chemical reactions taking place in our body. Or Metabolism is the sum of living reactions which occur in the body of an organism.

Metabolism =Catabolism(destructive) +Anabolism (synthesis).

And, consciousness is the ability of an organism to sense their surroundings and to show responses to the stimuli.

Animals show response to the surrounding by using sense organs. And plants show response to light and water etc.

Yes, both metabolism and consciousness are defining properties. As defining properties are those properties which don't have any exceptions.

And in living organisms reproduction and growth are the non-defining properties as they have exceptions.

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