A dead organism is the same as a nonliving thing in science.
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Myth: A dead organism is the same as a nonliving thing in science. ... Things that are dead once did have the characteristics of life, but when they die, they lose some of the characteristics. That is why dead and non-living are NOT the same thing.

Non-living thing is never alive.

Dead thing was once alive.

Living things can breathe, grow, reproduce, detect and respond to the changes in the environment, excrete, use the energy from the environment. E.g., Animals

Non-living things don't exhibit these characteristics. E.g., Soil, air

Let's take an example of living things, say lion. When a lion dies, we never say,”Lion has become a non living thing now”. But we say,” Lion is dead”. Death can only happen to living things.

Lion is dead now. But it was once alive.

But soil is never alive. Never dead too!

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Explanation:

option number c is the right answer.