Characteristics of living organisms

Explain the features that define living organisms, including: (a) movement as the action that results in a change of position or location by an organism or its part (b) respiration as the series of chemical reactions within cells that decompose nutrient molecules to release energy for metabolic processes (c) sensitivity as the capacity to perceive and react to alterations in the internal or external environment (d) growth as a lasting increase in size and dry mass (e) reproduction as the mechanisms that produce offspring of the same species (f) excretion as the process of eliminating waste products from the organism.