Life
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- "Eroticism is assenting to life even in death." --Georges Bataille
Life is a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects, i.e. non-life, and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
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- Alpha taxonomy
- Artificial life
- Biological immortality
- Biology—the study of life
- Carbon-based life
- Cell
- Conway's Game of Life
- Entropy and life
- Evolutionary history of life
- Extraterrestrial life
- Extremophile
- Gaia hypothesis
- Genetics
- Genetic engineering
- Hierarchy of life
- Kingdom (biology)
- Life form
- Life on Mars
- Meaning of life
- Nature
- Non-cellular life
- Organic life
- Organism
- Origin of life
- Personal life
- Phylogenetics
- Prehistoric life
- Prion
- Quality of life
- Silicon-based life
- Synthetic life
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