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I very much agree with you Coreena because they still store there nutrients from the sun which keeps them alive for so long

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I think #6 of the 8 characteristics would be very relatable to the first scenario because when this plant was going through death a friend replanted it and it responded to the environment that surrounded by, and while the plants temperature changed and absorbs the nutrients around it it came back alive.

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I believe that It was able to be brought from the dead because of the roots and how much stored nutrients it had. When someone says "Place the (certain plant) upside down so it cannot grow back to life," they are right. The reason why is because of the soil has some properties that makes the plant (when placed regularly) able to grow back. So my belief is "Once alive, Always alive."
Also not just the nutrients, water also is stored inside the roots, so it helps [when placed right side up (regularly) :p ] the roots grow through the soil a-gain.

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I believe that the characteristic of #5 and #6 responds to this scenario because even though the cactus seemed dead or looked dead, it wasn't. There was probably still nutrients and cells living inside it, but progressively, the more it was outside the more it could've actually died.

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the reason the cactus was able to be alive again,was because of the molecus in the cacti

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I think the cactus was still alive but it dried and and need to be hydrated just like humans need  water, plants need water too. The cactus was never dead to begin with. Once it was replanted and watered, it was perfectly fine.

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the cactus was never dead it was close to death but by giving it water it was able to grow new branches.

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doctors know if a person is dead or not by the person's pulse. then doctors try to bring them alive my doing CPR and other stuff. Then the person is fully dead. One characteristic will be to use energy, and made up of cells.

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maybe someone faked there death or maybe they decided to drink something that made their heart slow down bt the person was still alive like Romeo and Juliet

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I believe that in this scenario the cactus didn't fully die yet. I think the cactus didn't fully die yet because all the nutrients were probably still stuck in its body to keep it alive long enough to be able to reproduce again. Also after getting planted back into the ground it was able to get water back running in its system. Also after planting the cactus back into the ground it technically reproduced itself.

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I think that this scenario corresponds to the characteristic #5 because in order for the medical professionals to determine whether or not the person is completely dead, they need to find out whether the heart of the person is pumping and their respiratory system is functioning or not. If the case was that the person WAS alive, and they were being buried, what could've caused as the fact that the medical professionals weren't fully aware or 100% sure since after all, we have way more advanced technology today compared to back then and that's if technology was needed which there could be a possibility so they can determine whether they were alive or not.

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I believe that for the first scenario number one, at a short amount of time, that the cactus was dead. But for a quick moment , the cactus was just on a break of dying , because it maybe didn't have enough water . The cactus could also have done is that , it may not have the right amount of water , so the cactus was close to dying of dehydration from the lack of water .

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I believed that people can be turned out to be alive when dead, because some time the organs in the body shut down or the temperature is so low that it looks like they'er dead.  Other things that can maybe tell u that a person is dead when they check the cells and energy of the dead. The last reason is maybe the doctor was not paying attention.

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I think that characteristic #6 which is respond to enviornment best describes this scenario because when the cactus was pulled out of the ground, it was not living anymore. It wasn't getting the nutrients it needed to live so when it got replanted, it got the nutrients and energy needed to live again.

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I think this scenario is that the owner of the cactus should've taken care of it

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I think that the cactus was dead but it came back to life because of reproduction. The cactus maybe still had a little bit of cell that still were living so when she started to take care of the cactus it absorbed water and created more cells.

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I believe that the cactus wasn't really dead because it still had nutrients. But not enough to survive which was slowly dying but wasn't exactly dead. The cactus was alive and was still carrying nutrients inside.

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I believe that the cactus was never really dead. I think that the cactus was maybe on the verge of dying out. However, when given the proper nutrients, the cactus became healthy again. -Oscar Torres

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From this scenario, the cactus had a moment of when it had passed to when it was able to come back able to grow and develop. (4) As it had passed, it wasn't able to reproduce or develop into a more luscious cactus that it can be. With this end of situation, it leads us to have it's own characteristics of living.

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I believe this scenario represents characteristic six; respond to environment. When the cactus was pulled out of the ground, it could no longer get nutrients and reacted accordingly, and when nutrients were available, it "came back."

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Doctors can think that their patients have died, when they really didn't. For example when a person's heart stop beating. doctors uses the to help get the heart beating again. Sometimes the heart can not function at that specific time, leading to the doctors thinking that the patients have passed away.

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Doctors know if someone is dead when the Heart is not pumping and the respiratory system fails to do its job. The reason people COULD have been buried alive, is that doctors were not as "educated" in the ways of health as they are today. They may not have known how to tell if the person was alive scientifically

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I believe that the reason why the cactus came back to life is that it still contained it's nutrients to grow. So that's why when you added water and put it back into the ground it continued to create those nutrients. This probably happened because it still had some energy left in it after those few weeks.

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I believe that for a small period of time the cactus was in the grey are of the dying period since you were still able to keep it alive. This is relating to characteristic #6 since it probably did not receive the right amount of nutrients for it to be green when it was not in the ground. You were able to bring it back by setting it in its necessary environment and giving it water.

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Scenario 2:  There have been times in which a person was thought to be dead and they turned out to be alive.  For example, a woman's dead body was brought to the morgue for an autopsy and then when the medical examiner started his procedures she responded and it turned out she was alive.  A man's dead body was laid out for his family members to view at a church.  As the organist played his favorite hymn, he sat up and wanted to know what was going on.  Centuries ago the fear of being buried alive was probably a more realistic fear than it would be now.  A few people were so worried about this that they patented inventions such as a bell that stayed on the top of the ground and was attached by a cable through the ground to the inside of the coffin below so that a person who was buried alive would be able to ring the bell to get attention.  The invention was never used, but it shows the fear was very real and there may have been a few people who were buried alive in the past.  How could these things have happened?  How do medical professionals determine when someone's life ends?  What are the 'signs of life' they need to look for (use a characteristic of life for this part)?  

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Scenario 2:  There have been times in which a person was thought to be dead and they turned out to be alive.  For example, a woman's dead body was brought to the morgue for an autopsy and then when the medical examiner started his procedures she responded and it turned out she was alive.  A man's dead body was laid out for his family members to view at a church.  As the organist played his favorite hymn, he sat up and wanted to know what was going on.  Centuries ago the fear of being buried alive was probably a more realistic fear than it would be now.  A few people were so worried about this that they patented inventions such as a bell that stayed on the top of the ground and was attached by a cable through the ground to the inside of the coffin below so that a person who was buried alive would be able to ring the bell to get attention.  The invention was never used, but it shows the fear was very real and there may have been a few people who were buried alive in the past.  How could these things have happened?  How do medical professionals determine when someone's life ends?  What are the 'signs of life' they need to look for (use a characteristic of life for this part)?  

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Directions:  1.  Choose one of the following scenarios to respond to.  Be sure to include at least one characteristic of life.  2.  Then respond to someone else's response. 

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Directions:  1.  Choose one of the following scenarios to respond to.  Be sure to include at least one characteristic of life.  2.  Then respond to someone else's response. 

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Scenario 1:  Most people think it is easy to tell the difference between an organism that is alive or dead.  But, is it?  I dug a cactus out of a garden in my yard and lay it on it’s side on top of the patio.  I planned to replant it somewhere else in the yard, but got busy and forgot.  After a few weeks, it was all brown and shriveled looking.  I felt badly that I had let the cactus die.  A friend who is an experienced gardener was visiting me and saw my dead cactus and told me that if I put it in the ground and watered it, it would “come back” and be just fine.  I tried it and it worked!  I couldn’t believe it- over the next couple of weeks it grew new branches that were bright green and eventually blossomed.  How was I able to bring this cactus back from the dead?  Was the cactus dead?  What happened here?

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Scenario 1:  Most people think it is easy to tell the difference between an organism that is alive or dead.  But, is it?  I dug a cactus out of a garden in my yard and lay it on it’s side on top of the patio.  I planned to replant it somewhere else in the yard, but got busy and forgot.  After a few weeks, it was all brown and shriveled looking.  I felt badly that I had let the cactus die.  A friend who is an experienced gardener was visiting me and saw my dead cactus and told me that if I put it in the ground and watered it, it would “come back” and be just fine.  I tried it and it worked!  I couldn’t believe it- over the next couple of weeks it grew new branches that were bright green and eventually blossomed.  How was I able to bring this cactus back from the dead?  Was the cactus dead?  What happened here?