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Myth:A dead organism is the same as a nonliving thing in science.

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its living things respond to stimuli so non living things dont

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That is false. They are different because and example of a non living thing is a stone or a piece of glass that was never alive. However a non-living thing was alive but no shows no trace of it now like dry wood or a dried flower.
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