BIOLOGY ESSAY EXAMINATION Name Institution Affiliation Course Date of Submission Question 1 Since the time frame to study the unfamiliar subject matter is short it will not be entirely possible to establish if an organism is living or not. There are some properties that are exclusive to life that shall not be able to be established immediately and they include reproduction, growth and heredity. When a genetic system is transferred from one being to another through DNA then heredity is said to have occurred. Since the time available is also too short, the level of growth may not be immediately recognized because it may be too low or negligible enough not to establish how far an organism may have grown within the three days provided to study the sample.