Definitions for "living organism"
a complex and tender being, and it lacks sufficient stability, while, in contrast,machines, typical products of traditional engineering, have been made in such a way that they will be solid, lasting, as simply constructed as possible
a complex chemical factory in which precisely regulated reactions occur between thousands of substances
a complex machine that has organization
Keywords:  funct, self, ion, imposed, environment
an "open system" because it is not completely self-contained and self-supporting
a self-organizing system, which means that its order in structure and funct ion is not imposed by the environment but is established by the system itself
a highly structured system, a pocket of low entropy
a biological entity that can transfer or replicate genetic material
a system that can interact with its environment, exchanging material with the outside, and capable of reproducing itself
Keywords:  whole, greater, sum, parts
a whole greater than the sum of its parts
Keywords:  package, pattern, information
a package, or pattern of information