Question

What are some examples of similar characteristics between living and nonliving things?

Answer 1

Living beings and non-living things both follows the physical and chemical general principles, like the thermodynamic laws, and they are constituted both by atoms and molecules, the basis of the natural organization of all known matter on Earth.

Explanation:

Consisted mainly on Carbon (`C`), Hidrogen (`H`), Oxygen (`O`), Nitrogen (`N`), Sulphur (`S`), Chloride (`Cl`) and some Metals like Potassium (`K`), Sodium (`Na`), Iron (`Fe`), Calcium (`Ca`), Magnesium (`Mg`) and many others (as solved minerals and biochemical coadjuvants or constituents of some organic proteins and enzymes) living beings are organized systems based on the same kind of matter that constitutes, essentially, all both living and non-living beings.

Except by the proportion or general organization, the living beings obtain from the abiotic environment `all` the resources they need to grow and reproduce. Therefore, they are both subjected to the same thermodynamic laws, including release and absorption of energy as heat, organization of molecules considering entropy and energetic efficiency and loss, etc.

The main difference is that, on living beings, the "language" of this organization is far more complex and based on the genetic code (DNA, RNAs and proteins), but they are related to the same physical and chemical processes, the very basic principles of nature.