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Biologists use the term life to refer to the processes comprising the activity of living, to the entities that embody those processes, and to the interrelations and interactions among those entities---complex adaptive systems. The question turns on what precisely characterizes the 'processes of living'. In answering that, biologists hope to find answers to many other questions in biology, perhaps even some not yet asked (see Biology and Systems biology).

This article will provide a fundamental structure enabling the reader to learn heuristically what constitutes 'living'. Until understanding emerges full-blown, the reader must, so to speak, live with the word in the contexts in which it exists during the unfolding of this article.