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on life.

Submitted by ekim on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 12:01pm.
in class (on monday), we stopped at living things being defined by its "improbable assembly" and as having a "collection of properties." But then how many properties would qualify as being a collection of properties, and therefore a living thing? And if science has no right or wrong answer, does that quantity in defining a collection of properties depend on The Crack?

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