Question

Which function is NOT a property of life?

1. Populations of organisms rarely change over time.
2. Living things exhibit complex but ordered organization.
3. Organisms take in energy and use it to perform all of life's activities.
4. Organisms reproduce their own kind.

Answer 1

Answer: The function which is not a property of life is that the populations of organisms rarely change over time because evolution occurs.

Explanation:

Evolution is defined as the changes in the charachteristics of organisms of species over generations which relies on the process of natural selection.

Over hundred of years each specie and each organism of that specie has evolved because it has adapted new chnages according to the environmnetal chnages that had occured and their need of survival.

Evolution is basically the changes in the heritable genetic material.

Hence, this is not in accordance with the definition of life that populations dont change over time.