• Question: What is the definition of life?

    Asked by Jammy Dodger to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 17 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Emily Holland.
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      Miranda Bane answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      When I was at school we learned a handy trick to remember the things that define life…
      It’s called MRS NERG

      M is for movement
      R is for respiration (breathing)
      S is for sensitivity (being able to sense things around you)

      N is for nutrition (eating)
      E is for excretion (pooing!)
      R is for reproduction
      G is for growth

      If something does all of these things then it is alive!

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