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Which characteristic of life distinguishes a fire and a flowering plant?

A)use of energy

B)movement

C)growth

D)defined boundary

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Answer:

growth

Explanation:

In plants, growth occurs from within by a process which involves the intake of new materials and their subsequent incorporation into the cytoplasm. Growth is an irreversible increase in size and mass.

Both fire and flowring plant share movement, use of energy and defined boundary characteristics. Both are able to move in different directions, use energy either stored or available and have a defined boundary.

Answer:

c. growth

Explanation:

The characteristics of living things are Movement, response to stimulus, growth, reproduction, respiration,  nutrition and excretion.

While a fire may move and have a defined boundary like a living thing. A fire has neither weight nor mass and as such does not exhibit growth as growth is an irreversible increase in size and mass.

Hence a fire is distinct from a flowering plant in that it does not have growth.