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Life refers to the property or quality of plants and animals that distinguishes them from inorganic matter or dead organisms; specif., the cellular biochemical activity or processes of an organism, characterized by the ingestion of nutrients, the storage and use of ___________, the excretion of wastes, growth, reproduction, etc.