Name the characteristics of living things.

      

Name the characteristics of living things

  

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Faith
- Nutrition

- Respiration

- Gaseous exchange

- Excretion

- Growth and development

- Reproduction

- Irritability

- Movement
Faimus answered the question on December 3, 2017 at 19:20


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