The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth,

reproduction, functional... The question, "What is life?" has been one of many long discussions and the answer may depend upon your initial definitions. Life is cells. Cell theory consists of three basic points. 1. All living things are made of cells. 2. The cell is the smallest living thing that can perform all the functions of life. 3. All cells must come from preexisting cells. Some definitions of life are: 1. The quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a nonliving or dead body or purely chemical matter. 2. The state of a material complex or individual characterized by the capacity to perform certain functional activities including metabolism, growth, and reproduction. 3. The sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual. Alive: "living creatures"; "flowers were for the living" this is your first experiment in your biology class now us.the.perfect time to zwrite a reflection on what life(noun) or living (adhective) means to.you There is also an adjective live which looks like the verb but has the same vowel as the noun. It rhymes with the contraction Ive (~ I have). This is used in connection with electricity, the media and certain other types of activity. It means active, or living in a figurative sense. The live rail on the London Underground (the Tube) and other electric railways is the dangerous one that carries the current; a live show is one that is not prerecorded, and is broadcast as it happens; a live football broadcast shows a match that is happening as you watch it. Scientists might talk of a live experiment to mean one, perhaps of long duration, like growing a crystal in Chemistry, that is still in progress.