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Characteristics of Living Things
• Living things have a complex, organized structure that consists largely of organic molecules.
• Living things respond to stimuli from their environment.
• Living things actively maintain their complex structure and their internal environment.
• Living things acquire and use materials and energy from their environment and convert them into different forms.
• Living things grow.• Living things reproduce themselves, using a
molecular blueprint called DNA.• Living things, as a whole, have the capacity to
evolve.