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Originally Posted by Raven
I was wrong. There aren't 7 criteria for life. Only 4. Here they are.
1.) Metabolism.
2.) Growth.
3.) Reaction to Stimuli.
4.) Reproduction of the species.
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A fetus wouldn't qualify as being alive under these criteria. It doesn't have an indipendent metabolism, it depends on the mother to produce energy. Sure it could, given the right conditions, develop into a being with a metabolism, but so could cells taken from my skin.