Which of the following is a defining characteristic of living organisms?

1. Growth 2. Ability to make sound
3. Reproduction 4. Response to external stimuli
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Which of the following are synonymous?
1. Living state and Metabolism
2. Growth and Reproduction
3. Coma and Brain death
4. Homeostasis and Thermoregulation

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Which of the following are the defining properties of life?
1. Growth and Reproduction
2. Cellular organization and Consciousness
3. Growth and Consciousnes
4. Cellular organization and Reproduction

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Isolated metabolic reaction in a cell-free system:
1. Can be demonstrated
2. Is not a living reaction
3. Is a living thing
4. Is faster than in the living cell

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Perhaps the most obvious and technically complicated feature of all living organisms is:
1. Capability to reproduce to produce similar offspring
2. Ability to grow from inside
3. Ability to sense and respond to environmental stimuli
4. Metabolism inside a defined boundary of a cell

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An unconscious patient cannot be aroused by stimuli to normal consciousness but the doctors hope that recovery is possible. This patient is said to be:
1. In deep sleep
2. Comatosed
3. Brain dead
4. Malingering

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Jahi McMath was a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures. Her parents considered these measures to constitute life support, while her doctors considered this to be futile treatment of a deceased person. The family also claims that the hospital pressured them to donate McMath's organs. What will be true for ‘brain dead’ cases?
I: In brain death there is no chance of recovery because body of a brain dead person is unable to survive without artificial life support.
II.The difference between brain death and a vegetative state is that it's possible to recover from a vegetative state, but brain death is permanent.
III. After brain death, it may be possible for the person's organs to be used in transplants.

1. Only I and II 2. Only I and III
3. Only II and III 4. I, II and III
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