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> An organism refers to any individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, and maintain homeostasis. It can be a virus, bacterium, protist,
by mattigames 7y ago
> An organism refers to any individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, and maintain homeostasis. It can be a virus, bacterium, protist, fungus, plant or an animal.
- pvaldes 7y agoThis creatures defy definition boundaries. Some act as animals with structures to run and travel fast, but can photosinthesize also so can fit at the same time in the old definition of plants. Currently they are neither animals nor plants. Some fungus walk and climb and some bacterias can act "like a beehive" with a collective purpose in some phases of its cycle. Bacterias reproduce when divide, but often its cells remain losely attached in tetrads or chains. Bird eggs increase its cells by division and sometimes a single egg can produce two twin animals. Are they reproducting?. Well, in some sense, yes.