Please answer fast Q.12. Each of the following statements is true about some or all organisms on planet earth. Which is the most fundamental – most basic, complete, general and accurate – statement about what distinguishes all organisms from all non-organisms?   1.Organisms are entities which contain chemically encoded information and chemical tools designed to assist in the chemical replication of that information.   2.Organisms require cooperation of conspecifics to reproduce.   3.ORGANISMS REQUIRE EXTERNAL ENERGY SOURCES TO SUSTAIN THEIR NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATUS.   4.The information designing organisms is prone to error in its replication as a result of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

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Q.12. Each of the following statements is true about some or all organisms on planet earth. Which is the most fundamental – most basic, complete, general and accurate – statement about what distinguishes all organisms from all non-organisms?

 

1.Organisms are entities which contain chemically encoded information and chemical tools designed to assist in the chemical replication of that information.

 

2.Organisms require cooperation of conspecifics to reproduce.

 

3.ORGANISMS REQUIRE EXTERNAL ENERGY SOURCES TO SUSTAIN THEIR NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATUS.

 

4.The information designing organisms is prone to error in its replication as a result of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

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