POST THE WHOLE THING
You had, a few posts back, in direct line of replies, on the same day. There is no need for me to repeat every point you make esp very recent and easily found points.
I was using your full definition, and that's the definition that makes your point false.
Your definition would with slight modification (and if that modified definition was accepted) support your claim. If you changed it to "...all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole, at every point in their life cycle", but adding "at every point in their life cycle" would make it a clearly false definition.
In fact its a false definition without that addition. Since it isn't true that all organisms are capable of all of those things. Arguably all species of organisms have members that are capable of those things, but not all individual organisms. Reproduction is the most obvious (but not only) example. Not only are many individual organisms not yet capable of reproduction, or not capable of reproduction any more, some never, at any point of their life, are capable of reproduction. |
