How many criteria does a living organism have to meet to be classified as living? justify your answer.

1. Living Things are Composed of Cells:
Single-cell organisms have everything they need to be "self-sufficient". In multicellular organisms, specialization increases until some cells do only certain things.
2. Different Levels of Organization:
Living things must be able to organize simple substances into complex ones.
Living things organize cells at several levels:
Tissue - a group of cells that perform a common function.
Organ - a group of tissues that perform a common function.
Organ system - a group of organs that perform a common function.
Organism - any complete living thing
3. Living Things Use Energy:
Living things take in energy and use it, for maintenance and growth.
4. Living Things Respond To Their Environment:
Living things will make changes in response to a stimulus in their environment. A behavior is a complex set of responses.
5. Living Things Grow:
Cell division - the orderly formation of new cells.
Cell enlargement - the increase in size of a cell. Cells grow to a certain size and then divide.
An organism gets larger as the number of its cells increases.
6. Living Things Reproduce:
Reproduction is not essential for the survival of individual organisms, but must occur for a species to survive.
All living things reproduce in one of the following ways:
Asexual reproduction - Producing offspring without the use of gametes.
Sexual reproduction - Producing offspring by the joining of sex cells.
7. Living Things Adapt To Their Environment:
Adaptations are traits giving an organism an advantage in a certain environment.
Variation of individuals is important for a healthy species.

Option 'C' is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we have given that

Mean score = 96

Sample size = 100

We need to find the distribution of the test scores is likely to be :

In negatively skewed, the mean is to the right side.

It also shows that the tail on the left side is longer than the tail on the right side.

And the bulk value lies in the right of the mean.

In our situation, mean is to the right side and tail is to the left side.

Hence, it is negatively skewed.

Therefore, Option 'C' is correct.