Question

The living organism can be distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for
A. Responsiveness to touch
B. Interaction with the environment and progressive evolution.
C. Reproduction
D. All of these

Answer 1

Hint: The living organisms have characteristic features of reproduction, response towards external environmental changes, growth, cellular organization, metabolism, etc. On the basis of these characters, we can easily differentiate them from nonliving things.

Step by step answer:
All organisms have the ability to multiplicate themselves for this we can take an example of organism prokaryotes to eukaryotes. Plants, animals, bacteria all are able to reproduce and multiplicate themselves but the non-living things are not capable of multiplication.
All the living organisms’ responses towards any change in the environment as they show responsiveness toward temperature, light, water, etc. but non-living things do not show any response towards these factors. The living organisms show progressive evolution. As they are developed from a primitive type of organism.
Hence option D is correct.

Note: Responsiveness towards external environmental changes is characteristic of all living organisms but self-consciousness is only found in humans. Responsiveness and metabolism are the most important feature of living beings. These are found in all without any exception. For other characters, there are some exceptions found for example the worker bee cannot reproduce but it is an example of living organisms.