Chapter 1 of the text highlights the nine properties of life. Briefly describe each of the nine properties and discuss how things like a virus, prion, and viroid can reproduce, but are not considered to be alive. Address the question: how can things like

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Listed below are the 9 Characteristics of Life.  Assignment needs to be 300-500 words in length and in APA format.

 

1. Order 

 

2. Metabolism 

 

3. Motility 

 

4. Responsiveness 

 

5. Reproduction 

 

6. Development 

 

7. Heredity 

 

8. Evolution 

 

9. Adaptations