All of Life uses energy to sustain itself, that it acquires from outside sources.
Self-regulation is dependent on elements outside of the self, from the surrounding environment.
Dynamic equilibrium is maintained by actively monitoring and adjusting balance with pressures and concentrations of once living compounds originating outside of the body border being of all things.
Life is responsive to world -energy= world -energy is responsive to life
going round and round feeding from itself cyclically
the inside informed from the outside
with cost and effort
Life force being more than the union of mechanochemical patterns in external membranes and internal structure
synthesizing compounds for growth
autotroph and heterotroph with auxotroph and mixotroph
working for a living, on the clock, different life spans, different lifestyles challenges and difficulty the stresses that shape life forms.
surface growth
Extra cellular polymeric substances are about more than motility and a protective immediate environment for the individual cell living and leaving behind
it accumulates aggregates accelerates
networks of communities and colonies signals and nutrients in biofilm
distributing partitioning recipricosity before the existence of multicellular vascular structures.
cultivated
micro-climate
changed