The characteristics that are possessed by living beings include movement and locomotion, respiration, reproduction, growth, presence of cells, and metabolism.

Movement and locomotion

• Living beings like animals can move from one place to another, that is they can

Locomote. They can also Move while staying in the same spot, like plants.

• Non-living objects can neither move nor locomote on their

Respiration

• Respiration is a process in which breathing is combined with utilising the oxygen for breaking down food and releasing
• We breathe by taking in Oxygen and giving out Carbon Dioxide. The oxygen inhaled is then utilised by the body to derive energy by breaking down food that we
• Non-living things do not